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TU P0LLI AND BEN, — jVIdB DOTER AND SUN, THIS 
LITTUL VOLUM, AZ a M8MENTO OY TH8 WURTHINES 
0Y TH8 LIN8RJ 0Y HWICH THR FORM a PCLRT, AND 
AZ AN INSENTIV TU THAT Hi INDUSTRI, INTEGRITY 
CULTUR, 0NUR AND FILANTHROPI THAT MR ENR- 
BUL THEM TU EMtXLRT TH8 BEST CARACTEHZ 0V 
THRR ANSESTORZ, AND TU B8CUM WURTHI AND 
EGZEMPLRRI SITIZENZ, IZ DEDICRTED Bi TH8 
OTHOR, THRR FdTHER. 


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Enterd accordig tu Act ev Ceggres, in the yer 1888, 
Bi C. W. LARISUN, 


In the effis ev the Librarian ev Ceggres at Washirjtun, D. C. 


PKEFQS. 


Hwll ther iz littul valit in record ig the det 
ev the birth and deth ov eni wun, meni ar in- 
terested tu no hwot eni wun haz dun tu devel- 
op hiz innet cwolitiz, tu pieperli fit himself tu 
enjoi the fhigz ev Ilf, tu mec himself yusful tu 
hiz nebur, tu fit himself tu alleviet sufferig, tu 
mec ezi the dqtiz gv lif, and thus tu help aleg 
with the afferz gv sosleti, and promot die hap- 
pines gv ol. It matterz littul hwen a persun 
iz born, or gv hwot perentej, lieu leg he livz, 
or hwer he livz, hum he marriz, or lieu meni 
dhildren ar born untu him. But hou he con- 
ducts himself, hen he trenz himself tu develop 
hwetever pessibilitiz beleg tu a hitman beig, 
hwot iiccGiuplisfhments he adhevz, hou ner tu 
the fill mezhiir gv a man he attenz and hwot 
he can, and hwot he duz cenlribitt tu the wel 
beig gv hiz neburz, and tu die promoslhun gv 
ol, ar the facto rz bl hwidh we ret men. 

Tu hav an illustrius perentej, iz gv itself, 
no espesfhal credit tu eni wun ; inded it iz ofen 


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a disgres — espeshalli hwen wun folz short ov 
the standard ev hiz famili averej ; but tn bs a 
wurfhi member ov a wurthi lln iz ©lwez com- 
mended bl ol. It iz a pas in sosieti, a plej in 
biznes, a garanti in public' trusts, a shurti tu 
a strenjer. It puts wun at sz am up hiz asso- 
shiets, and givz him peuer tu withstand ad- 
versariz. It inshurz credit in prosscptip ths 
©rdineri after z ov Ilf and insplrz confident hwen 
embarcip upon ths untnd ssz ov fortpn. It iz 
at ol timz a halo gv onur and a fountin ov 
happines. And, tu bs considerd az wurthi az 
eni wun gv hiz linsej marcs a man with es- 
peshal respect and givz him a pas h wither, 
utherwlz, hs cud not go. 

Tu bs then, at the lest, an averej in wuirz 
famili lln iz dszirabul, and a standip tu 
hwidh ol sfhnd stiiv tu atten. And tu brip 
vvun’z children up tn, or liter than, this averej, 
sfhud bs the effort gv everi perent. And tu 
accomplish this, perents shud ever cep bsfor 
ther children, in ther on persun, nobul egzam- 
pulz, and ofen remind them gv the det the o 
the famili ov hwidh the form a part, and hwot 
sosisti haz a rlt tu ecspect ov them. 

Ws ar told bi ths wiz and gud, that ths gud 
and gret hav ever bin encurejd, and inspird 
tu adhsv hwotever haz bin prezwurthi in ther 
llvz, bi ther nolej gv, and ther contempleShun 


9v the rszults ev the gud dedz ev thoz with 
hum the assosfhiat, thar cotemporariz, and 
thoz hu hay livd befor them ; that meni a man 
haz becum a hero bscoz ev hiz nelej ev die 
heroic dedz ev hiz ansestorz ; that meni a man, 
in the tlm ov a crisis, haz perild ol in die hop 
ev wel tu hiz fello — becoz ev hiz nelej ev the 
acslhunz ev the brav and god, and the rezults 
ev self-sacrifls for the wel ev wun’z naburz. 
And, the illustrius Cicero hwen meciij hiz pie 
for the Poet Clrchias stats : 

“ Neque enim est hoc dissimulandum, quod obscurari non 
potest ; sed prae nobis ferendum : trahimur omnes laudis studio, 
et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur. Ipsi philosophi, 
etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen 
suum inscribunt : in eo ipso, in quo praedicationem nobilitatem- 
que despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac se nominari volunt. Deci- 
mus quidem Brutus, summus ille vir et imperator, Attii, amicis- 
simi sui, carminibus templorum ac monumentorum aditus exor- 
navit suorum. Jam vero ille, qui cum Aetolis, Ennio comite, 
bellavit, Fulvius, non dubitavit Martis manubias Musis conse- 
crare, Quare, in qua urbe imperatores, prope armati, poetarum 
nomen et Musarum delubra coluerunt, in ea non debent togati- 
judices a Musarum honore et a poetarum salute abhorrere. 

Atque, ut id libentius faciatis, jam me vobis, judices, indicabo, 
et de meo quodam amore gloriae, nimis acri fortasse, verumta- 
mem honesto, vobis confitebor. Nam, quas res nos in consulatu 
nostro vobiscum simul pro salute hujus urbis atque imperii, et 
pro vita civium, proque universa republica gessimus, attigit liic 
versibus atque inclioavit : quibus auditis, quod mihi magna res 
et jucunda visa est, liunc ad perficiendum hortatus sum. Nullam 
enim virtus aliam mercedem laborum periculorumque desiderat, 


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praeter hanc laudis et gloriae ; qua quidem detracta, judices, 
quid est, quod in hoc tam dxiguo vitae curriculo, et tarn brevi, 
tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus? Certe, si niliil animus 
praesentiret in posterum, et si, quibus regionibus vitae spatium 
circumscriptum est, eisdem omnes cogitationes terminaret suas, 
nec tantis se laboribus frangeret, neque tot curis vigiliisque an- 
geretur, neque toties de vita ipsa dimicaret. Nunc insidet 
quaedam in optimo quoque virtus, quae noctes et dies animum 
gloriae stimuli^ concitat, atque admonet non cum vitae tempore 
esse dimittendam commemorationem nominis nostri, sed cum 
omui posteritate adaequandam.” 

Then, tu install r die best rezults. az sitizenz 
and filanfhropists, it iz wel that we ever cep 
fresta in our mlndz die nohul dedz ov uftierz, 
and that nobul dedz, dedz ov self sacrifls, dedz 
that brii] wel tu our nebur and tu the res, ar 
the onli fhiijz that can giv mortalz wurthines 
az men, and install r for them that respect that 
everi gud sitizen cuvets. 

IIwTl the nobul and gud acts ev eni persun 
tend tu awacen in die mlndz ov ol wel developt 
beigz, a respons ov similar efforts, perhaps the 
wurdii dedz ©v wun’z ansestorz ar die most 
inspirit]. Hens, tu pared tu dhildren hwotever 
iz, or haz bin, commendabul in ther ansestorz 
iz tu mac that effort hwidh jiromisez most tu 
awacen in them that fountin from hwidh we 
hop tu do die gratest amount ov happines tu 
our ©fsprigz. 

Tu pared die wurdii acts ov wun’z ansestorz, 


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and tu cultivat a dispozislhun tu emidat 
hwotever haz bin gud in wun’z parents, tu 
inspir a dispozisfhun tu perpetitet ©1 that iz 
gud in wun’z famili-lln, and tu introdus and 
develop neu trets that promis gud rezults tu 
dioz 9v the futur, iz tu mudh neglected bl 
Qmerican parents. Tu tedh a dhild that he iz 
ecspected tu be a wurflii beig, becoz he iz an 
ar tu famili wurth iz seldum dun in Qmerica ; 
and tu tedh a dhild that he iz ecspected tu be 
self-supportip, and self-sacriflsig, and that hiz 
best enerjiz must be devoted tu the promosfhun, 
not ov himself — not ov hiz purs — not ov hiz 
estat — not ov hiz cumfurt — but ov the wel ov 
hiz naburz and ov sosleti at larj, becoz he iz 
an ar tu famili caracter ov sudh hi wurth, iz 
©lmost never dun. Hens, die dissohitnes, 
prodigaliti, profligasi, vagransi and ruin ov 
meni ©fsprigz hu, under a better tipsfhun and 
a better parental dissiplin, wud not onli brig 
onur tu thar parents, wurth, respectabiliti and 
happines tu tiiemselvz, but ©Iso advantaj tu 
die stat. 

It iz tlm, then, that Qmerican parents turn 
thar mindz tu thar famili histori, and inculcat 
thar dhildren in die histori ov thar respectiv 
familiz, and tu trl tu awacen in thar ©fsprigz a 
dispozislhun tu foster hwotever iz gud in thar 
blud, and tu ingraft, bl marrij and bl cultur, 


8 


hwetever can impruv ffis stoc, mac tbs famili 
lln mor wurthi, and mor condiisiv tn tbs welfar 
ev soslsti. 

Hw©t flis moral status oy ths members ov 
tbs hitman famili me hav bin in ths erliest 
tlmz, I cannot affirm. But, sertin it iz, that 
for a fsu ffiouzand ysrz, a man baz not bin 
found he iz without vlsez. Nor iz it llcli that 
sudh a prodiji wil occur veri sun. Indsd, at 
this tlm, ths sum ov biz virtiiz and biz vlsez 
cons ti tut ffis moral mezhiir ov a man. In ths 
sam individiial olwaz egzist aloi) with hiz vir- 
tiiz, a grat meni vlsez. And, az men differ az 
tu ths cind ov virtiiz ffia pozzes, so du the dif- 
fer in ffis cind ov vlsez ffia hav. Ths virtiiz 
ov wun man ar ov veri hi order, and hs iz ov 
veri grat vain tu hiz naburz ; ffis virtiiz ov 
another ar not so hi, and az a consscwens, hs 
brigz les tu ths wsl ov hiz fello men : yet sum 
mit bs wilig tu sa that ths tm men instanst ar 
s.cwolli virtiius. So, ffis vlsez ov wun man ma 
bs ov veri giav order, and az a consscwens hs 
ma bs veri contain inatig, or sven poizunus, tu 
ol hem hs rusts ; anuffier man hez vlsez ar 
just az mpuerus, ma hav vishus cwolitiz that 
ar les virulent, and accordigli hiz acts in sosl- 
sti wil bs les banful. Then, az sum virtiiz ar 
hi aud ennoblir), sum vlsez ar lo, virulent and 
dsgradig ; and virtiiz and vlsez, ©v hwotever 



9 


gred the me be, ar found in everi man. So, it 
happenz that the most virtuus man iz not en- 
tlrli fi*s from vis, nor the most visfhus man en- 
tlrli destitut ov virtu* II wen, then, we term 
a man virtuus, we onli men that hiz virtuz ar 
conspicuus and that in him virtuus cwelitiz 
predominet; and hwen we term a man visdius 
we men onli that, in him, visfhus ewolitiz ar 
the most conspicuus or that the ©nt -number 
hiz virtuz. 

Az a rial, hwer virtuz ov hi order ar found in 
a man, hiz vlsez, ©ltho the me be numerus, ar 
not veri virulent. And ofentimz in men ov 
gret moral wurth ther vlsez sem tu be onli 
wecnesez, and the hoi tendensi ov the man 
semz tu be tu gudnes. Sudli iz die caracter 
that Goldsmith depicts, az the villej pastor, 
in “The Dezerted Villej 

“E’en hiz feligz lend tu virtu’z sld.” 

And in retii) men, we must olvvez distirjgwis'h 
bet wen a wecnes and a wicednes. 

So common iz it that die clnd ov virtuz 
found in an individual, sugjest the clnd ov 
vlsez tiiat egzist in him that it haz bin affirmd 
that vis iz a cerrelativ ov virtu, and that hwen 
we no die number and the clnd ov virtuz that 
pozzes a man, we can, with rezunabul apprecs- 
imesdiun, infer hiz vlsez ; and that hwen we no 
hwet vlsqz eni wun haz we luc, with rezunabul 


10 


ecspecteshun, for sertin virtiiz that nesesserili 
egzist az ther cerrelativz. And, az a stetment 
Gv tbs negativ tu a cwestyun that we asc ©fen 
satisflz us better, and iz indsd mor slqsidetiv 
gv ths cwsri ws see, so the stetment ev the 
vlsez that a man haz telz mor ©v hiz gud cw©l- 
itiz and hiz hi spirit, than cud eni pansjiric 
0 v hiz virtuz. So, in rltig a biografi, lis hu 
rsfqzez, or neglects tu stet die selient vlsez ov 
hiz hero iz an unfefhful wu reman, prodtisez a 
folti piettp*, and censslz fr©m hiz rederz thoz 
veri fhiijz hwidh alon can enebul them tu judj 
©V ths merits ©v ths person the ssc tu no. 
Hens, $ hav not neglected tu stet ths vlsez in- 
cident tu ths persunz 1 hav dsscrlbd. 

Ther iz no famili hwidh ecstendz over sven 
a fsu jenereslhunz without memberz ©v bad rs- 
pqt, or at ths lsst, without memberz lna ar 
folti, and huz record iz not tu bs admird for 
ths virttiz it contenz. Ov thsz tu, hs hu his- 
torlzez a famili must spsc, and in duiij so bs 
fefhful tu ths facts in ths ces. 

Intensdiunalli $ liav conflnd this buc menli 
tu ths dsscripslhun ©v that part ©v ths Lari.su n 
famili that haz dssended fr©m Jemz Larisun, 
hu settuld ©n ths sst bage ©v Stoni Bruc, in 
ths tounship ©v Hopwel, c©unti ©v Merser 
and stet ©v Nsu Jerzi. For a number ©v 
ysrz, ths Rev. Jorj H. Larisun, M. D., ©v 


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Lambertvil, N. J., haz bin collect ig material 
for a mor cemprehensiv histori ev am* foes. 
This ware propozes tu embedi hwetever iz non 
ev ol tbs descendants ev Jen Lari sun, the Den, 
die projenitor ev ol the Larisunz in CLmerica. 
And he premisez tu publisfh this wurc az sun 
az it iz practical tu du so. Mudh ev die ma- 
terial that formz appendics A ev this velum 
he haz clndli contributed. 

The alfabet yuzd in printiij this bnc iz the 
sem az that yuzd in printii) the “Jurnal ev 
Qmerican Orfhoepi.” We hav adopted this 
alfabet becoz we belev it tu be better non than 
eni uther fonic alfabet, and mor jeneralli ap- 
pro vd than eni uther. For the benefit ev thoz 
hu ar net familyar widi it we her print — 

Q Tabul egzhibitig the Alfabet with ke- 
wurdz indicatig the sound ascrlbd tu edh let- 
4 ter, and tip-wurdz tu slho lieu die ke-wurdz 
luc hwen spelt fonicli. 


LETTEItZ. K8-WURDZ. WUIIDZ SPELT FONICLI. 


a 

a 

a 

b 

c 

dh 

d 


arm, fit her; 
add, fat; 
ale, fate; 
barn, rob; 
call, colt; 
child, much; 
dale, sad ; 


arm, father, 
ad, fat. 
el, fat. 
barn, reb. 
col, colt, 
dhlld, mudh. 
dal, sad. 


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e 

end, met; 

end, met. 

8 

eve, mete; 

ev, met. 

f 

fame, leaf; 

fem, lsf. 

& 

go, gag; 

go, gag. 

h 

hall, hat; 

hoi, hat. 

b* 

ice, fine; 

Is, fin. 

i 

in, fin; 

in, fin. 

j 

jar, joke, gem ; 

jar, joc, jem. 

l 

left, bell; 

left, bel. 

m 

make, arm ; 

mac, arm. 

n 

net, ten ; 

net, ten. 

9 

link, uncle, sing; 

liflc, upcul, sir). 

0 

old, note; 

old, not. 

0 

odd, not, what; 

ed, net, hwot. 

O 

form, or, all; 

form, or, ol. 

P 

pay, ape; 

pa, ep. 

r 

rip, far, error; 

rip, far, error. 

8 

same, cede; 

sam, ssd. 

sfh 

shelf, flesh; 

sfhelf, flesfh. 

t 

tone, not; 

ton, not. 

fh 

thing, breath; 

fiiip, brefh. 

th 

thine, with; 

thin, with. 

11 = oo 

pull, put, foot; 

pul, put, fut. 

o 

o 

II 

3 

rule, root, do; 

rial, rut, du. 

u 

other, dove, up; 

u flier, duv, up. 

n 

cube, muse; 

cpb, mpz. 

V 

vane, wave; 

van, wav. 

w 

wet, web; 

wet, web. 

y 

yawn, yet; 

yon, yet. 


z zone, maze; zon, mez. 

rfh azure ; a^hiir. 


DIFTH9DZ. 


eu 

feud. 

8U 

feud. 

ew 

new, dew. 

811 

nsu, dsn. 

oi 

oil, toy. 

oi 

eil, toi. 

ou 

out, stout. 

Oil 

out, stent, 


TH8 OTHOR. 


Qcadsmi ey Sieks and Qrt, 

Ri^gos, ~N. J., Ogust 10th. 1888. 





THS LARISLTNT FAMILI. 


CHAPTER I 

TIIS MEMBERZ OV Ml GRANDE a TIIER’z FAMILI 
AZ THG APPSRD Til MS HWEK a CHILD. 

Hwen about at ysrz old, wim brlt Sunda 
mornig in ths munth gv Mg, ml. parents prs- 
pGi*d tu vizit ml “Grandadi” Larisun : I woz 
in form d that I and ml sister Mari, tu ysrz 
yurjger than mlself, wer tu accumpani them. 
Ths project woz not over-plsziq tu ms, but bl 
Mori it woz held with loud ecspresfhunz ov dsllt. 
Tu bs egzhibited tu thoz fussi old foes, and tu 
bs pamperd, carest, cist and stuft with swst- 
msts, woz a littul rsvoltig tu ms, and I prsferd 
tu st& at horn and hav a better tlm plcig with 
ths cats and dog. But, plszig or displszig, I 
had tu go — Muther had mud ths arrenjments, 
and I nsu ths matter woz a ficstqr — mor firm 
than eni lo ov ths Msdz or Persfhianz. Accord- 
iijli Marla Mac Manerz, a yuq woman hu had 
gron up in rm father’z famili, bsgan tu dres ms 
for ths occGzhun. Ther iz no fotograf ov ml 
appsrans hwll undergoing that ordsal, but it iz 


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net tu bs dented that hwetever ev sulcines and 
ilfslig 1 dard tu sho, at that aj, stud eut in bold 
rslsf. But Marla wez olwaz cind and never 
laet for wit, and olwaz over flod with yumur, 
and yuzqalli rnanajd ms (and the rest ev ths 
children) just az she plszd. Accordiijli in dq 
tlm she had ms wesht, comd and drest tu go. 
In her gud yumurd wa shs sed: a Neu that 
yu ar ficst, yu must lue in ths glas tu ss heu 
wel yu luc.” With this rsmarcshs cenfrunted 
ms with ths glas. With ml appsrans $ wez 
sumhwet surprizd mlself. For hit ev forhed 
I wez never rsmareabul; and in mi dhildhud 
ml hwit, flacsen har gru olmost deun tu mi 
ibreuz. Hwen a lit tul in bad yumur, bstwsn 
scalp and ibreuz ther wez no vizibul clsrd ter- 
ritori. And tu mac mi appsrans wars and tu 
mac ms luc mor porcqpin-lic, everi har ev mi 
lied gru tu its most distant end with eut a 
wav or a curl — az strat in its c-ors az if it wer 
afrad, or afszd, ev its naburz and wer dster- 
mind tu giv them ol ths latitqd tha cud enjei. 
In her attem})t tu giv a littul gras tu mi har 
(breus, az sfhs wez [)lszd tu col it) shs attemj)t- 
ed tu set that part ev it en ths for part ev mi 
bed iutu a “tep-net” — accord iq tu a fashun 
then in vog ; — but, in spit ev her brush and 
com, decsteriti and scil, — sop and pomatum, it 
wud net set up; rather, it wud poc deun, and 


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the nether endz projectig bslo mi ibrouz, hug 
befor ml Iz and over mi noz, lie a dhaplet ov 
nsuli dipt tallo candulz. The appsrans ev this 
unsemlines, az $ so it in the lucig glas, did not 
veri mudh amslioret mi nnad. This Meria ecs- 
pected, and az sun az she so the frounz that 
wer olredi liidsus, sumhwet intensifi, sfhs guv 
vent til her feligz in a gnd harti laf, follod hi 
an sjacgleshun : “ Wei ! yu’r a gresful imp tu 

go a vizitig; (f’d lie tu hav yu alog with ms; 
and, yur her curlz lie tallo candulz.” 

® got but a glimps ov mi appsrans — $ did 
not poz tu tree ths contur ov ths imaj ov mi 
fiziegnomi, nor ths rslsfs that fild the ersq 
within it. Az this glimps flash t upon mi mind, 
mi her ssmd so clos tu mi lied, and mi scalp 
f round doun tiflsudh ulterior limits, hwil mi 
slender nec protruded from mi sfholderz about 
az far az a sulci boi cud get it, $ fhot ov ths 
appsrans ov ths lied ov ths old Muscovi 
dree — ths tirant ov ths barn yard and ov ths 
entir poltri woe — huz fhretenig mud hwen 
wacsig aggri at ths old ruster, ths gander or 
ths turci gobbler, with hum hs olwez had a 
mornig lit, woz a veri slsc lied, and a veri 
freunig fes. Fsrig that ths sem similitiid wud 
occur tu Meria, 3? ewieted doun az fast az pos^ 
sibul, and began tu egzhibit hwotever gresez 
$ cud command under ths sircumstansez. J 


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did net wont her tn tel me hwet ^ luct lie, nor 
tu pas eni raor comments upon ml apperans. 
She W 9 Z n 0 t veri depli grounded in Retori c, af- 
ter tbs manner ov Scia 1-men, but her aptitgd in 
the yus ©v Similiz, Metaforz and Iliperbolez, 
mad her a terror tu ol bin had wuns bin die 
subject 0 v her critisizum; and in that pllt 5 
bad bin mor than wuns, — and had profited bl 
it to. Indsd, at that tlm, filer woz nuthig els 
in tbs wurld, ecseptig mi Muther’z strog hand, 
that J so gretli ferd az Merla’z critisizumz. 
Q bwip cud onlicut scin dsp; but her yomur- 
us but just critisizumz the sol illgmineted, 
disclozd bwot boiz wer not wunt tu ss, and 
egzerted a moldig in fl gens. 

Distigctli J remember bon ocward 1 felt in 
a vizitig dres, fhshund after the^stll then in vog- 
for boiz, — hwidh consisted ov big pants with a 
cwodraggglar fruntig — fasend with flat fast 
bras buttunz, a wld west- band set with a dhap- 
let ov bras bel-buttunz, and a cupul ov bras 
bel-buttunz upon the outsld ov the pant legz, 
at file bottum. Q big round-about cot, with 
its brod wast-baud — just log enuf tu over lap 
the wast-band ov the trouzerz (az file wer jen- 
eralli cold, in tboz daz) with the west-band ov 
the trouzerz tu connect bl menz ov the aforsed 
bras bel-buttunz, — tit slevz, with a bel-buttun 
on the anterior ov edh cuf, — ful, sewer promi- 


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nent sfholderz, set, upon the most prominent 
part, with tia or fhre bras bel-buttunz; — clozd 
in frail t bl msnz ov a velvet border so fhicli 
set with bras bel-buttunz that the figgerz cud 
hardli find rum tu maneuver hwen buttunig 
the garment tugether, — overlapt at the top bl 
a brod, sno-hwit, stifli stardht, linen collar, 
that spred out until it almost tudht the bel-but- 
tunz that servd az epolets, and that liugd up so 
hi and so clos around under the dhin that the 
boi carrid hiz hed sumhvvot az a colt duz hwen 
first subjected tu the Kimbal Jacsun ran; — 
hi lest shuz with brod solz that turnd up at 
the to lie the yagei sled runner. If enifhig els 
cud hav bin az distestful tu ms, I fhage heven 
that J never had tu no hwot it woz. Tu st 
pud dir) in sudh a di*es az this woz a fhig tu be 
depriceted. And then the fhot that we wil no 
sillier land at “Grandadi’z” than a liaf duzen 
wil gather round with soft, sieenig, be hi toe, 
and llcli enuf we wil hav tu be cist bl the hoi 
lioushold, — an ordeal that yuzd tu awecen in 
me a dezlr tu be ebul tu indulj in profaniti. 
And then wil cum thoz cuciz and cecs, and 
candiz, and penuts and a plet ov rls-puddig, 
az swet az huni and so st if that yu cud cut it 
intu sllsez lie bred, — and a littul ov ol tliez 
tliigz at lest I’l hav tu et; — just az if we hav 
not enuf tu et at horn; — and just az if muther 


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duz not giv us hwet swst msts ws ©t tn hav. 
It iz an oful thig tu bs a smol boi and be tac- 
en tu “Grandadi’z” a vizi tig. 

But anon ws wer drest and redi tu bs plast 
in ths carrij. Cuverd wagenz at that tun, wer 
fsu and in a rural district rarli ssn. — Ths vs- 
hicul tu bs yuzd en this occashun wez modem 
and fhot tu bs fulli abrest ev ths tlmz, — a for- 
hwsld riggig panted red, with brit yello strips, 
dron bl wun hors-oltho on uther eecazhunz I 
hav ssn tu liorsez tu it. Ths aeselz wer, ov 
cors, wuden, and larj snuf tor bai n bsrnz, — 
euppuld bl a lag that, tu-da, ws wild fhigc a 
lod ov itself. Ths sprigz wer wuden, — ov ths 
pattern so much in vog in thoz daz. Ths 
bodi, about seven fst log, woz not strut, — but 
rather so bilt that ths from wurc — ths bed 
pssez and ths raligz — wer secsfhunz ov censen- 
tric parabolaz, — fild in with handsum paneligz. 
wel ornamented with brit yello strijis. r rhs 
sstig consisted ov a siggul bench without 
cushun, with hi wuden bac, paneld and panted 
in espig witli ths blest art ov ths carrij-bilderz 
ov thoz daz — set nsr ths middul ov ths bodi, 
upon tu log curvd, rectaggglar wuden barz 
liwich wer stlld u set sprigz;” — ths hoi formig 
a veri substanshal and a veri ornamental top- 
pig tu so stabul an undergsrig, — espeshalli 
liwen occgpld bl tlis paterfamilias and ths 


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materfamilias ev wun ©v the mor prolific and 
wel-tu-du familiz ov tfis broni amid, strop 
handed, sworfhi fast agricultural clas ov 
Hunterdun Connti. 

Upon fii 8 set, ©v cars, father and muther sat. 
Upon tlis hottum ov the wagon hodi, behind 
the set woz arranjd a larj, thic, widen blap- 
cet, — so ■ folded that it mad a veri nls, thic, 
spunji carpet tn sit upon. Upon this blapcet 
carpet ip we wer plest, after the fa shun ov 
arranjip children for an ecscurshun in thoz daz. 
This woz a gud cup for yupsterz, (and wun 
intu hwich the most ov the farmer urdhinz 
lopd tu get) the sldz ov the wagonz beip yuz- 
palli just lit snuf tu allou the lied tn per abuy 
it, — and at the sam tlrn tu mac the matter 
sfhur that tlia wud not spil out. Thus ficst, 
h wen the wagon woz in rapid moshun, over 
ground sumhwot uneven, the lift ul wun’z hedz 
wud bobbul up and doun — nou in slt, a non 
out ov sit — so rapidli that wun a lit tul wa 
of woz unabul tu tel h wether that part ov tlie 
cargo abaft the set, wer lipman or hovin — cavz 
or children; — and if 5 ever fulli felt, fulli re- 
allzd ml cinship tu the hovin famili ov the 
Fana ov the erfii, it woz hwen J woz plast in 
that cup. Inded, so closli acin tu the caf did 
$ fel that 5 wonted tu salut everi wun that we 
met with a blat; and, but for the fer ov of- 


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fendiij fattier and muther, and the conseewensez 
therfrom, J wild hav mad eni cazqal spectator 
belev that J woz but a yugliij ov the speshez 
Bos taurus . 

The lid wez wsrisum; — sittig flat upon a 
parlor carpet with the leg/ horizontal and ttis 
bodi vertical, duz wel snuf for a fen minits, 
but tn sit in this postip-, upon the bottum ov 
a wagon, with wuden sprirjz, muvig over a 
common rod at a rapid rat, iz a fliig that macs 
tlm go tardi; and unles wun haz an ofnl 
respect for ttie ten commandments, he wil 
ttiirjc ©v meni ttiigz that ar no part ov pleti — 
even if he utterz not a ward. 

But in di\ tlm, the carrij stopt in frunt ov 
a larj Fann-hous, and we wer sahited with : 
“Thar cumz Benni and Hanna An with the 
children” — (the cavz, fliot F), and out ov the 
lions hasend Grandmama, an ant, an ugcul 
and an “old tlm-pes” in the shap ov a rigculd- 
fast, crnced-bact, snarl i-fetqrd, I-snappiij old 
wuman, that muvd cwic, spoc short and shod 
a temper that woz huni hwen the slnz wer lit, 
jinjer hwen thigz muvd ordinarili, but caen pep- 
per if yu stroet her the rog wa. Qloij with thez 
cam drum, the “nigger,” and Carlo, the dog. 
Grun woz a relic ov slaveri ttiat ynzd tu egzist 
in N. J. He woz a larj, wel bilt negro, stud 
erect, and woz commandhg in hiz apperans. 


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He woz then old — 70 ysrz $ fhigc. IIs had 
bin manipnited, ysrz bsfor, and left hiz master 
tu see hiz fortipi amug stranjerz But after an 
absens gy les than a ysr hs returnd tu hiz old 
hom ascig hiz master (az hs cold him) tu rsin- 
stat him in ths famili agen. Grun, gy cors, 
cud never bs reinstated az a slav, but with 
Andro Larisun hs livd eut hiz daz, ’and hs 
ssmd tu enjei dis thigz gv ths Larisun estat 
az mudh az if hs ond them ol, and wgz ths dis- 
penser gv ol ths gratiiitiz that wcr ever bsstod. 
With Grun ol ths relativz mad a “grat fus;” 
hs wgz never silted in ths vizitig sircul; and 
lnven ths partig sersmoniz occurd, Grun with 
that CGmplasens pecglyar tu wel-bred slavz — 
even after tha had bin manqmited, wgz a per- 
sunaj ho cam last, (but, hs olwaz cam,) tu 
sdiac ths hand and sa: “Gud bl! And ths har- 
ti pllansi, and ths cordialiti gv hiz grasp awact 
in ms a fslig for grand fa ther’z haushold and 
for ths African ras tliat ^ had liGt non u-mil 
then and that wil bs coeval with mi daz. At 
hiz defh, ths famili, and ths frendz gv ths famili 
wer cold together, and Grun wgz berid with 
thoz sersmoniz, and with that solemniti, that 
told ms, and ol ho so, Iigu fafhful a servant 
hs had bin and lieu hi 1 i ths famili regarded him. 

Ths crisp old woman wgz Nansi Van Zant, 
ths muther gy blind Peter Van Zant, ho at mi 


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erliest recollecshun wez an inmat ev ths Por- 
tions ev Delawar Tbunship; and ho, upon lev 
from tbs overseer ev ths pur, yuzd tu vizit 
around amug hiz accwentansez, and sig sogz 
for ths amgzment ov ths yug, tu get tobacco, 
grog and sudh u ther thigz az hiz dsprevd stum- 
ac cravd, or hiz fansi dszlrd. 

Nansi woz rather a smol wuman — sumhwot 
biger than a pound ov sop. In sum respects, 
i^hg luct rather mor lie a pint mezhiir fild tu 
overfloig with psnuts; in uther respects, lie a 
stubbi, bundhi dol with a dhesnut-bur for a 
hed. She had a sharp, shril, erseig vois, and a 
littul sharp gra I, hwidh mudh rsmlnded ms ov 
dis sere end ov a gimlet, a pug noz that turnd 
up a littul at ths end, and a mouth that shut 
in eni wc shs wisht it tu bs. — Hwen shs felt 
pouti, it pucerd up tit, from ol cworterz, az if 
clozd with a shir strig, lie die wurcpocets that 
elderli wimen yuzd tu carri. Hwen shs felt il 
and -woz dstermind tu do hwot shs nsu wud 
displsz die rest ov ths houshold, it clozd up 
dat, lie a clam shel; and in anserig a ewest- 
yun, hwen shs woz in an il yumur, it went tu 
with a snap, lie a stsl trap. 

Left tu herself, shs went on about her wurc 
with variig modz, hi or lo, fast or slo, soft or 
loud, bag or slam, dash or pitch, — notist olwaz 
bl ths cats and ths dog — ho olwaz cept out ov 


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her we — even at fedip tlm. She cud luc eni 
clnd 9v a luc but a gad luc. She yuzhtialli 
luct a vinegar luc; but in rhis luc she cud put, 
at wil, solt or pepper, wurmwud or tanzi, aloz 
or bef’s gol, or ol ©v thez comblnd. Wun 
freun at Carlo, and hiz tel dropt az if slash t 
with a brodsord. Wun luc at a cat, and he 
wGz stund az if within the wither ip inflqens ©v 
a clap ev thunder;— and he wud creudh and 
crol of az if hiz Ilf depended upon the lones and 
slones ©v hiz get. And hwen she, in her most 
plezant miadz, turnd tu luc at me, beneth the 
penetretip in Aliens ov her I, J wilted lie a re- 
sent li transplanted cabbej plant beneth die 
witherip rez ov die nunde sun. 

Thez fenomena wer die attendants ov her 
best conduct. Hwen a littul provoct, a storm 
wud aiiz, the netip* ov hwidh woz az verius az 
the stormz ov the sezunz. Ofen, die storm 
wud be a northester — cold — reni — and a pritti 
stedi bio; ofen a hot south wind, terrific at 
tlmz, and at tlmz interrupted widi dashez ov 
ren, or dish-woter ; suinthuz a northern blast 
with hel and sno — -that dhild ol within her in- 
flpens, — espeshalli the cats, dog and dhieenz; 
sumtlmz onli a western brez, hwidh amid fe- 
vurip envlronz, mlt subsld into an after inter- 
val ov sunshln, or s unshin and shadoz; but, if 
the envlronz prezented diipz tu provoc, the brez 


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cwicli dsvelopt into a slelon, a hurricen or a 
tornado. Inded, it woz cwlt possibul tu rez a 
storm in ths cidhen at eni tlm ; and, if ther woz 
mudh hot woter tu be wurct with, or splasfht 
about in her ware, thoz hu nsu her, stept jin- 
jerli, and tu her, if the sed enithig, toct plezantli, 
lest alog with flis gel the renfol wud be scold- 

4 >- 

~No dout the wurcigz ov her stormz wer not 
so frecish az the abuv descripsdiun wud sem tu 
indicet. But, in thoz dez, $ had not ped mudh 
attenshun tu die prinsipulz ov Fizical Jeografi, 
and woz not apt in the discuveri ov the occult 
elements upon hwidli windz depend. But 
ugcul Andro woz; or, at the lest, he neu hou 
tu ecslt her storm-berig elements. And hwen- 
ever he tliot thigz wer a littul to seren; or, 
that fhigz wer a littul to monotonus, he redili 
indgst a littul veiieti bl seig the proper fhig tu 
Nansi. Ofen, wun wurd woz enuf tu rez a 
gel, to wer shor tu brig a slclon, fhre wer 
enuf tu led tu a hurricen; and, if a secund 
parti happend tu put in a wurd, die windz wer 
shor tu wacs fgrius, and the er sulfurus; then 
litnig and thunder follod and the cidhen woz 
swept with a tornedo. 

Nansi ended her dez in grandfather’z 
hous, — at die ej ov nlnti, J thige. Grnd cwoli- 
tiz she must hav had; or els grandfather and 


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grandmuther must hav bin rnor anjelic than 
lupnaniti jeneralli iz; for, the olwez treted her 
rsspectfulli and clndli ; and, in specig ev her, 
olvvez med the impresfhun (upon me at the lest) 
that sffe wez wurth i. 

Nansi W9z a cuzin tu mi grandfather. Orij- 
inalli sfhe wez a Severnz, the doter ev a brother 
tu ml grandfather’z muther. ISTansi, hwcn cwit 
3 7 ug, had marrid a fello bi the nem ©v Van 
Zant, lua had a gud del ©v land and net a 
littul muni. Sum h©u ther fortipi fled frem 
them, 'her huzband did, and ©v cors sfhe went 
tu liv with her cuzin Andru Larisun, lua semd 
tu be ebul and wilig tu provid for ol hiz 
unfortitnet relativz that wer wurthi. 

The urjcul and ant that then fovrnd factorz 
©v the famili wer Andria Larisun Jr. and 
Meri An Fillips, hiz wlf. Urjcul Andru wez 
a lai j man, had a hevi, gruf veis, and wez an 
ever-lastig torment tu dhildren, — a veri terror 
tu me! He wez clever enuf and gud enuf, if f 
had onli thot so. lie olwez t rid tu be enter- 
tanirj, but hiz efforts tu enterten onli Intend ml 
mizeri, — becoz, betw T en thoz ffi^z hwidh lie 
did that mudh plezd me and thoz fhiijz that so 
cenli vecst me, ther wez les than a breth. He 
©fen began a breth, apperentli with die inten- 
s'hun ©v entertanir) and plezirj ; and then, at 
eni jupctiir at hwidh an ©pportitniii prezenled, 


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Iis wud turn the most enjeiabul moment intu 
a sezun ev the cenest torment, ©v cors, the 
onli stec J tuc in him wez tu wetdh him tu ss 
hwar hs woz so that ^ cud cep aws from him. 

Qnt Mori woz a wuman rather abuv ths 
avcraj slz — flesThi, erect, cemmandig, plezant, 
mutherli and pozzest ov ol ev thoz uther gud 
cwelitiz that sfho so wel in a wuman, and 
awacen in everi lit minded persun (hwether 
dhlld or adult) a felig ev o and respect. Thru 
her seren I, $ so into a sol that wez worm, ca- 
pasfhus, uprit and euderig. Her ful, reund fas, 
ful dhin and brod meuth insfhurd me that in 
her wer candor, fragcnes, justis, enur, pro dens 
and hwetever els that mit be recwlrd tu mac 
her a most luvig and induljent ant. And, er 
J had entlrli fotograft her, J found ml dhlldisfh 
affecsdiunz had becum adherent tu her; and 
dgrig ol ml vizitig ecsperiens, then and at sub- 
sec went tlmz, ml affecslhun for her gru onli 
mor ardent. 

At this tim, ther wez in die famifi, a littul 
cuzin, Jen, the sun ev ugcul Andru and ant 
Mari, — a plezant littul fello, and an enderig 
plamat hu livd but a feu yerz. 

Ov cors, bl this hoi assembli we had tu be 
cist, — an oful ordeal for me. Thagcs tu Marla 
hu had wesfht me and drest me, J had a gud 
bandana in ml pecet; and $ mad yus ev it. 


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Hwen tli 8 cisig ordeal woz ended I mudh 
wisfht for sum aqua ferventa cum saqoo vul- 
garis, but ® wez tu basfhful tu asc for it. In 
spit ay ol I cud do, — in spit 9v the best yus 
$ cud mac ©v ml bandana, ►£ fhot, ol da, J cud 
fel and test the spit or slaver that cem with 
thoz cisez ; and hwen 5 arrivd hom at svenig, 
the first fliig I 1 luct up wez a wosfh-basin, sum 
worm woter and soft sop, and then $ had a 
gudwesfh; — and, yet, hwen $ retlrd that nit, 
^ imajind I cud test or smel a littul ©v the 
pecqlyar oderov'Qrun and Nansi, — tha both 
smoct tobacco. 

Hwen the ordeal av gretiij waz over and the 
seremoniz pecidyar tu sudh metigz wer ended 
we muvd toord die hens, assended the steps 
hwidh led tu a larj ari piazza, furnisfht with 
armd dharz, and past into die sittig-rum. 
Our paraferna waz plast assld properli, and we 
wer bad tu be seted. The rum in hwidh we wer 
wez spashus, plezant and commodius. Upon 
die dor wez a carpet, — tu hwidh the brum had 
bin wel plld ; the dharz wer net, clen and ezi, 
t but not ecspensiv; upon a net tabul, cuverd 
with a brltli figurd oil-cloth, waz a pil av hues 
and paperz; upon a stand wer tu lamps, — bur- 
nisht, and trimd — redi tu be lited at a mo- 
ment’s wornig; upon the wolz wer a feu pict- 
tirz, — wun av Jen. Wasfhigtun, anuther ov 


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Lafaet, anuther ev Andru Jacsun, and an- 
uther — a silnet profll ev grandfather and 
gran dm u the r. 

The wolz wer az hwlt az llm end mec them, 
and tu cep die fllz frem spetig them, pendants 
ev hwlt paper artist icalli cut intu slits, and 
ceild intia festunz, hurj her and thar, from the 
selir), tu serv az fll-riasts. Thez, in thar snoi 
hwltnes, az tha swad tu and fro, or jlrated in 
the jentul brez diat wez muviij thru the rum, 
detracted net frem die ]>lezant apperans ev die 
hespitabul hoi. 

The liens stud die ledger wa est and west. 
This pozishun favurd a gud fre ventilashun 
diru open windoz, with hwidh the rum wez 
wel supplld. But, tu ad tu the ventilatig ca- 
pasiti, the rum wez provided with eppozig 
dorz, die wun en the nordi sld ev the rum, die 
udier en the seudi sld — hwidh opend directli 
intu the yard. Thru thez open dorz die cul 
brez frem beneth die hqj old trez widi hwidh 
die manshun wez surreunded, past freli and 
gav a fresh nes and a llf-stirrir) fors that wez 
lilli valiid bl ml veest, fategd and heted littul 
bedi. 

Tu littul dliarz wer arranjd — wun upon die 
rltliand sld ev the dor, en the nordi sld ev the 
rum, die udier en die left, in sudh a wa that 
the bacs ev the dliarz wer toord die nordi wol. 


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In thsrlthand dher sat ml littul sister; in the 
left, I wez plest. Thus ficst, the cial brsz that 
pled over ms had an egzhilaretig effect upon 
ml pardht bodi, espesflhalli upon ths bac ov mT 
nec and hed ; but it did bad wurc with ml 
“brous.” In spit ov ol I cud du, ths wind 
wild cam it fesward; and over ml Iz it hug, 
flirted, swug or hwirld, accordig tu ths stregfli 
and jlresfhun ov ths brsz. ^ sun bscem trs- 
mendus fidjeti and logd tu get awe from that 
draft; but ther the had plest ms, and ther I 
nsu I must ste, — if it blu ol ths her of ov ml 
hed. 

Ol toct ov ths plezant brsz, — and tu ol it 
ssmd veri gretful; but grandmuther sertinli 
enjoid it amezigli. In fact, slhs had ficst her- 
self so that slhe cud. Her big, armd rocig- 
dher, (ths onli dher, so far az I recollect, I ever 
so her occiipl), woz plest about sentralli ov ths 
current ov pasig er, and nsr fhs frunt dor — 
with sst fesig ths north dor. This plest her 
fer tu ths wind and gev her ths ful bensfit ov 
ths current. 

It olso plest her in ths most fevurabul po- 
zishun tu vsu thoz littul imps, she woz plszd 
tu col her grandchildren, and gev us just az 
gud a dhans tu vsu her; — and in vsuig her, I 
yuzd wel ml tlm, — hwenever I cud find a 
moment that sfhs ivoz not wotdhig ms. But, 


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it ssmd tu ms an aj bsfor shs cwit scarmig 
ms — and it ssmd tu ms that shs hardli luct 
at Mari at ol. Indsd, Mari did net nsd mudh 
lucir) at — in a glans wun end ss that Meri wgz 
ol lit. Shs woz a wel-dispozd, ful-fast, fat, 
littul girl, with rozi dhscs, fid, plezant, bill Tz, 
ruddi lips and a grasful dhin that mud a coun- 
tsnans az dhsrful, az plasid, and az rediant az 
ths mornii). And thar shs sat — in her littul 
char — az cemplasent az if shs wer in Para- 
dls, — stir) ths cacs that had bin given her, in 
that dhsrful, satisfld we that never falz tu 
attract attenshun. But i — hwet tu du with 
miself and with ml tu handz ful ev cues J did 
net no. ^ had herd gv Purgatori — and J bs- 
gan tu tliiijc that if ^ cud dhanj ml prezent 
sitiieshun for an abod thar S wud du it. But 
a dhanj wgz net pessibul — and tu st that cac — 
wel, perhaps it wer pessibul, but tu du it, wgz 
cGntrari tu ml test and advers tu mi prinsi- 
pulz, — and so it wgz olmost a sertinti that it 
wud net bs dun. 

Grandmuther wgz a laij wuman. Shs w t gz 
not toler than a wuman gv ths averaj slz, but 
shs wgz veri corpulent, — veri fat, az tha sa, 
and wad abeut 2L8 peundz. Ths reciij-dhar 
that shs olwaz Gceiipid, wgz mad espeshalli for 
her — larj, strei) and wid, — with brod arm-rests, 
a hi bac, and brod, short recerz. This big 


dhar she ceinpletli hid, — arm-rests and ol. 
And, if tiis wether wez a littul worm, or if 
fhigz wer a littul ecsitig, sThs cept it ever in 
moshun, — with a swig tu and fro, cwic and 
sharp — az wun wad in cwest ev a littul fresh 
ar. This mornig die recig-dhar wez switdht 
aleg hardli az fast az yuzgal — az the brez wez 
streg, sThe did net ned the moshun; — and then 
she wez gud-yumurdli veuig her grand- 
dhildren — seannig everi indh ev them, — scruti- 
lhzig tli 8 minutest fetgrz, — trasig everi varia- 
shun in the lineaments, estimatig thar prezent 
and fqtur caliber, and thru them, litcig into 
filtgriti. — And % wez az bizi fotogratig her. ? 
had tu du hwet J did in this we at pss melz, 
az it wer ; becoz, liwen she wez lueig at me, 
with thoz larj, brTt, bemig Tz, 5 end net luc at 
her — ml Iz wud fob But, liwen she luct at 
Mari, or wez attracted bl the rest ev the cum- 
pani, or wez lueig after domestic respensibulz, 
►E wez at it agen, — nor did i abandon the jeb 
til J had ml wurc com plot. 

Her fas wez shapt sumhwet lie die old tlm 
frlig pan — nerli az larj, and cwlt az lustrus az 
that anshent yutensil liwen burnisht 1)1 the in- 
dustries hand ev the old-tim heus-wTf. Qfter 
die fashun ev the da, she wor a bebbinet cap, 
with a fril net cwlt az brod az a man’z hand, — 
hwidh az she switdht her recig-dhar, wez ever 


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in moshun — flappig tu and fro — with ths reg- 
qlariti ev a clee-pendulum — flirt ig awa the fliz 
and muscstoz, and adig, if not brigig, a fresh 
current ov ar, Stashund in ths current, az 
shs wgz this mornig, this brod fril had a dubul 
moshun — and sumtimz mor. Ths swig gy her 
recig-dhur instituted ths ynzqal tu and fro 
moshun; and then ths brsz, az it pled thru ths 
dorwa, broc, hwot utherwlz wud bs ths regu- 
lar flap, flip, flap, intu a semi-flap- flip-flap, 
with a ruslig, rattlig, wavlic muvment, lie that 
hwidh iz efen ssn in pssez gv clothig hwen 
suspended from a driig lln : and, then wuns in 
a hwll hwen ths brsz gru stregger, this brod 
fril with its hwit las border, wud go bac with 
a snap, or a crac, and flutter in ths wind lie a 
strsmer from ths for-mast, hwen pllig in a 
brsz. And, then, over this fril and las her 
leg silveri gru harz pord in sudh profuzhun az 
tu giv a metallic luster tu ths ssn. And then 
az ths brsz abated, thsz stragglig gra harz 
wud bs lszhurli, but nstli gatherd, — ths dhar 
stil switdhig — and adjusted in a strand and 
ceild behind sdh sr — tu awat ths necst gal. 

Her scin wgz unyuzualli hwit, with hsr and 
ther a freeul. Net a rigcul cud bs ssn — so 
smuth and dhsrful wgz her ceuntenans. Her 
blu iz wer larj and lustrus, and notabli velubul. 
Tha muvd az bediz du that flot in a perfect. 


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transparent licwid, camli, cwletli, grasfulli, 
ssrenli ; and, ficst in her fiziegnomi, wez an ar 
©V digniti, compozgr, luvig-clndnes, and moral 
wurth rarli sen, — even in the venerabul grand- 
mutherz ov die olden timz. 

Her dhin woz brod, prominent and strog. 
Her fored woz brod and In — givig her a com* 
mandig apperans. Her dhecs wer brod, hi, 
ful and smuth. Her noz woz not veri promi- 
nent — brod and silveri, az die nozez ov ejed, 
fleslhi foes ofen ar. 

Her mouth woz larj and ecstended herfzen- 
talli acres her fas — hwidh mad it luc larjer than 
it rsalli woz. The aggregat ov her fstgrz 
strogli ecsprest complasens, eempromlz, dher- 
fulnes, bsnevolens, forgivnes. The salient fst- 
grz wer her ful sfhinig fas, larj Iz, and brod 
mouth. Grandfather yuzd tu tel a littul an- 
ecdot rsspectig a comment upon die Wilson 
tamili (ov hwidh shs woz a member) that 
ilhpninats this pictgr sumhwet : Wans upon 
a tlm grandmuther woz with him in Filadelfia. 
Tha stopt at die Sin ov the Barli Shsf, in Sec- 
ond Strst — a hotel at hwidh he frscwentli so- 
jurnd hwen in the siti on biznes, and at hwidh 
he had thus bscum wel accwanted with die 
landlord — diat wel non, and accomplish old 
jentulman dia cold Marmadgc Watsun, hu, 
tha yuzd tu sa, bscam accwanted with and 


remem berd ol die cuntri foes that stopt at hiz 
hotel, ©v cors, upon enterig the hens, he in- 
trodqst grandmuthei* tu the landlord and land- 
ledi, tuc hiz rum in the hotel, left her ther and 
proseded tu hiz biznes in the siti. Az grand- 
father W9z so ofen dier and woz so wel ac- 
c wen ted with the host and hostes, dqrig hiz 
absens, Mr. and Mrs. Watsun had dun ther 
part, az occesih un alleud, in entertenig grand- 
mu ther. Let in the evenig grandfather returnd 
tu the hotel, and az Watsun had a, littul le- 
zhur, die wer alon tugedier for a hwll ; and 
hwen die had toct over the current atferz ov 
die de and grandfather wgz ficsig tu retir, and 
with candul in hand, w©z startig for hiz rum, 
Watsun ejacqleted : u Se her, Larisun, * hav 
bin tocig tu yur wlf sum diis evenig, and 5 
find that s!lie iz an ecsellent tocer — haz bin 
around sum — noz abaut fhigz — and iz veri en- 
tertenig. Tel me ! Didn’t yu marri a Wil- 
sun?” Grandfather, with hiz accirstumd gud 
yumur, rsplid— “ Yes ; but hwl sdmd yu diigc 
that ml wlf iz a Wilsun?” “HwT, sfhe lues lie 
them,” waz the repll.— “Wel, hwat iz dier 
abaut die Wilsunz diat iz so peeqlyar diat yu 
tel wun ov diem so redili ?” aset grandfather. 
u Wel,” replld Watsun, “die Wilsunz ar 
peeqlyar in this —the ol hav a veri larj T and 


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an oful rooufh; the ss everifhig and the can tel 
ol about it.” 

The Wilsunz, so far az i cud lern about 
tiiem, wer gud snuf, — a cind ov gud-neturd, 
hevi-futed, big-bell id', puddig-luvig, sloudhi- 
go-szi sort ov foes, ho thuget dis Lord for ol 
the got, lrn ever pred tu him tu send them 
plenti tliat iz gud tu st, and tu cep pss and 
cwletpd amug men, and tu deliver them from 
hard ware; the espeshalli pred diat hb wud 
giv them a plenti ov tlm tu slep and tu vizit 
ther neburz, espeshalli sudh az ferd sumptip 
usli everi de. 

Jon, ho gev us our grandmuther Larisun, 
woz doutlesli, at die lest, an averej ov diB 
famili, — a plus, pre-in-ths-mornig, giv-fhages- 
in-th 8-s veil ig cind ov Prezbitsrian, ho olwez 
red ths Scrip tgrz, and cept up famili devosbunz 
and obzervd die ten commandments, (ov hwidh 
hs madfrzewent menshvn ,) hwenever it woz an 
advantej tu hiz biznes tu do so; — ;just ths 
cind ov timber, that woz diot, in thoz dez, tu 
bs first clas stuf for an elder in a Prezbitsrian 
dhurdh. But, in riggig out hiz ship for die 
voiej ov Ilf, hs marrid wun Jenni Drsmer, die 
doter ov a wel -tii-do farmer ho livd upon ths 
suthern slop ov Sandi Pij, and ho ssmz tu hav 
bin wel non therabout, az dis pozzessur ov 
mudli land and ov not a feu children. 


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We ar told that the term Smith (hvvidh 
menz wun hu forjez with die hammer) becam 
a man’z nam beeoz the persun first so cold 
wez a wurcer ov metal; and that the term 
Wever woz first applld tu a persun beeoz he 
wez a wever ov cloth, and the term Shepherd 
signiflz — “he fiiat iz a tender ov the shep- 
herd.” So, dontles, the projenitor ov the Dre- 
mer famili woz namd from that ewoliti that 
woz most conspicitus in him and most distig- 
gwisfht him from u filer men. 

Thoz slenst in bredig tel us that the inter- 
fqzhun ov blud bl marrij haz a wunderful ef- 
fect upon the ofsprigz, that the dominant trats 
ov the mutiier ar most apparent in her sunz, 
and that her doterz, if tha bred, b! the loz ov 
atavizm, tranzmit tu thar sunz the dominant 
characteristics ov tiiar sirz. This prinsipul 
semz tu be wel egzemplifld in that part ov the 
Larisun famili, and in thoz Wilsunz hu dro 
blud from the vanz ov Jenni Drsmer. Inded, 
J yuzd tu w under hwot woz the matter with 
mlself; J thot ^ woz the cwerest combinasfhun, 
$ ever met. 5 cud never get farther awac than 
tu be just desentli in a drem ; and miadi, moj- 
ig, mun-llt in ml veuz, 5 wanderd alog the 
path ov ml erli Ilf, “dremig dremz no mortal 
ever dard tu drem befor,” strugglig tu get 
awac and into the radians ov the sun that mi 


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compsrz ssmd tu enjei ; but, in spit gv ol $ 
cud dia, tu ms, it wild be mian-llt at nunde, 
and ml soundest ffiosofi wud bs onli a drsm. 

if did net no hwot woz ths coz ov ol this. f 
thot perhaps it wez surri dizsz — sum elment 
that cud bs rsdht bl medisin. Hens, erli if 
turnd ml attensfhun tu the lislig art. But, 
oldio if erli attend tu a creditabul nolej gv the 
tsdhigz gv Escffiapius, becem a fizisfhan cred- 
ited with at lest az mudh scil az the averej gv 
the craft, and hav had mlself for a pesfhent 
nail thsz third ysrz, if hav net yet bin ebul tu 
get it Gut gv ml blud. Yet f drsm, and drsm 
and drsm, — oltho if du net slsp mor than ths 
rest gv men. 

Letli, this ever tendensi tu drsm CGnsernz 
ms les, espesdialli sins f hav lernd ths coz gv 
it. Sum tlm ago, hwll lucig over sum Blbul 
recordz rsspectig mi ansestorz on ths Wilsun 
sid, if discuverd tlis abuv nemd facts. At 
wuns it dond upon ms hwot had olwez bin 
ths matter with ms — tins modi, mini-lit, mel- 
ancolic, mizerabul mlndednes, lucii) thru a hez, 
az it wer, tu ss hwot utherz affirm the ss clsrli. 
0v cors, it set ms tu thigcig. And, if sun so 
that ffier iz no yus — hwot iz born in a man 
wil bs wurcig in him and wurcii) out gv him, 
ol ths dez gv hiz lif. 

But, this drsmig duz not effect everi wun gv 


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our cindred in ths sem we. The » ol drsm tu 
bs sib ur ; but, sum drsm about wun fhig, 
utherz, about uther fhigz. And so thei* drsmz 
led them, — sdh h withersoever hs goz, — sum 
intia difficultiz, utherz intia denjerz, but fsu 
intu fortgnz. In fact, so clos duz this drsmig 
shut doun upon sum ov our cin, that the fel 
tu tel hou mudh, and ov hwot elnd, the ot tu 
drigc; — in sseig a drigc, the ar az apt tu get 
ths rog sort ov stuf az the wud bs if the llct 
it ; and in ths act ov drigcig and drsmig, 
hwidh, at ths lsst amug our cin, ar so ofen in- 
seperabul, sumhou ths drouz dspenz — or ths 
ilidz fol doun a littul, til the cannot ss ths 
mezhgr die hav tecen, and bsfoi* ths cup iz rs- 
miavd from ths mouth the’v got tia mudh. 

Notwithstandig sfhs woz haf Drsmer, Grand- 
mu flier woz a clever sol hu olwez wonted 
everifhig wel fed, and wel cerd for, and ssmd 
tu bs ever fsrful that her gests wud not st 
snuf; espeshalli did slhs ssm tu fsr that her 
grandchildren wud not st az mudh, at ths lsst, 
az the cud. Cumfurt woz ths ol important 
fhig with her. And in her filosofi, cumfurt 
cem ov gud stig, gud drigcig, and gud clothig. 

For plsti shs woz wel non, and shs wud toe 
a dsl ov it lit intia yu, in spit ov yur indiffer- 
ens, or eni attempts tu sved her ewestyunz, 
or tu parri her stetments. Shs woz a member 


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Gv tbs Prezbitericui Churdh at Meunteri, a 
fafhful attendant az leg az heivcorpglensi al- 
lend her tu travel, a jenerus supporter, and a 
sticler for the Caticizum. Her deetrin wez, 
yu must go tu Churdh, yu must lern ths 
Caticizum and yu must so ynr prerz, or yu 
wil go tu ths Bad. 

Bsfor i wez farli dun fotografig grand - 
muther, grandfather cam in frem a strol over 
ths fsldz. Shacig ths hand ev sdh in thon turn 
hssed: “Gud mornig Hana,” “Gud mornig 
Ben;” and bsfor incwlrig ths helth or ths wel- 
far ev sther, hs turnd toord ths bac-dor, and 
stiapig denn and graspig sdh ev us bi ths shol- 
der, and heistig us clsr ev eur dharz tu alit sdh 
wun upon a ns, az hs ssted himself in a dhar 
that wez in szi rsdh, hs sed : “And hsr or ths 
littul foes; — cum tu ss grand-papa; — and hen 
dia yu dia? — and hen did yu lsv Lusi? — and 
hen did yu lsv Jorj?” And with thsz ecs- 
preshunz, cam meni worm hugz and dubul ths 
number ev endsrig, ardent cisez — -just sudh az 
end cum onli frem a fend, jenerus, ardent, old 
grandfather. The told — everi wun ev them 
told — ther wez msnig in them — tu bs felt and 
rsmemberd; — in them wer ths endsrig, insentiv 
peuerz ev an ardent, streg, filanthro})ist, ecs- 
})resig hiz atfeeshun for hiz efsprig, awacenig 
in him ths dszir tu bs lie him, — affeeshunat, 


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ardent, streg, bold and tru. — Thor wez menig 
in them, did I sa? I! tiler wez! — Ther wez 
menig in everifhig dial hs sed or did, — net les 
in the act ev fendlig a dlilld than in tranzactig 
die most important biznes — and it wez felt — 
olwaz felt — az a vigorus, cler strem frem a 
pur, streg feuntin — tiiat wild be nether stept in 
its cors nor diverted frem it onli bl defh. 

Cisez, after the ©rdinari manner ev cisig, 
wez abeminabul tu me. But, grandfather’z 
cisez I cud bar, — oltho, az he sun lernt, I never 
invited them. 

At that tlm, grandfather wez no grat cgri- 
esiti tu me. I had sen him efen enuf befor. 
Inded, if he wez net at eur heus, at the lest, 
wuns in tu wees, we fhot sumthig wez the 
matter, — or diat he had u gen West for a 
drov.” If, upen a Sunda mornig (or upen eni 
uther da ev the wee) ther cam deun the Saudi 
Kij rod, a man in a sulci witii an Trun-gra 
hors — at a gud, reund tret — and turnd toord 
the river — that wez grandfa tiler; and, befor die 
fact cud be carrid frem eur pla-grennd in die 
dor-yard intu die heus tu in uther, he had olwaz 
mad the secend turn in die rod and wez cumig 
in the lan. And, er we had turnd wuns 
areund, he wez up the hil, bl the tl-post — and, 
lie a bei dismeuntig hiz velesiped, he — old az 
he wez, witii hiz grizzli lees tiotig in the brez — 


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edited from biz sulci — tld biz hors — and with 
gresful, nimbul, steps wez trippip into the 
hens. No wun 9v us get a dhans tu tl grand- 
father’z bors — so cwic and decstrus wez lie 
in hiz we — oltbo bp, wez wilip that we shod 
help him unger old gra from the sulci. 

Grandfather wez a wel proporshund man. 
He wez abeut 5 fet and 10 indhez hi, and be 
wed abeut 180 peundz. Hiz port wez erect ; 
hiz step cwic, decstrus and gresful ; die miav- 
ments ev hiz hed wer gresful, ecspresiv, and 
cemmandip ; hiz veis wez pur, strep and mpz- 
ical ; hiz spedh, eufenic, cler, fre, ezi and velp- 
bul. 

He had sharp, penetretip, but plezant, lic- 
wid, gre-blp Iz — set beneth strep, hevi brenz 
that wer miavd with everi emosfhun. Hiz fered 
wez hi and brod, — the anterior tebul ev die 
fruntal bon standip vertical, fulli thre indhez ; 
hiz dhin wez brod and strep ; hiz dhec* bonz 
wer hi and preminent, and wel armd with 
mussul; the zigoinatic ardh wez preminent — a 
pecplyariti ev the old Larisunz; hiz noz wez 
preminent, stret and ful frem the fered deun ; 
hiz meuth wez larj and berlzental — az stret 
acres hiz fas az if it had bin set dier bl a lln. 
Hiz slholderz wer net veri preminent; biz dhest 
wez ful, brod and simmetric ; hiz belli, ful, 
simmetric and strep; hiz thlz, legz and fet, 


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simmetric and str©g ; liiz annz, for-armz and 
bandz, fill, simmetric and str©g. If in eni 
particular biz limz wonted in simmetri, the 
defects wei* in hiz luindz and fst. Thez, per- 
haps, wer a littul les th an tha sdmd be tu mac 
the simfnetVi complet. Yet hiz handz, tho 
smol, wer beutiful, even in biz old daz. So 
wer hiz fet — the instep ardhig hi and die toz 
spredig brodli — hwidh gav grat elastisiti and 
gras tu ol die muvments av biz loer limz* 
The muvments av hiz bandz wer veri grasful 
wether at wurc or yuzd merli in macig jestgrz. 

Grandfather wez a trend man. He wez 
trend for simmetric development — for helth, 
stregth, gras and yusfulnes; — and die perfec- 
shun Gv hiz fram, in no smol degre, waz the 
rezult ev this tranig, — av the calisfhenic ecser- 
slzez tu hwidh he had bin subjected. He cam 
ev a ras ©v trand men. The older Larisunz 
wer ol trand men. Tha ol grid up under cal- 
esfhenic dissiplin — wer ol simmetric and streg- 
li developt ; tha neu no superiorz — in hedi 
or mind, and tiia acnolejd nun. 

He wez trand for die development ov bon, 
©V mussul, 0V bran, ©v lugz, ©v dijestiv sis- 
tem — ©V everi part diat can mac die human 
form simmetric and str©g, and mac Ilf llvli and 
tria. Hens, he waz trand tu runnig and tu 
jumpig; tu b0csig and tu dansig ; tu reslig 


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and tu handlig hevi wets ; tu swimmig and 
tn rldig horsez ; tu cllmig and tu poizig the 
bodi hwil restig upon miavig bodiz, az slac 
rops, swigig barz &c. &c.; tu mathematics; — 
arithmetic, buc-cepig, jeemetri, menShia reShun, 
surveig, &c.; tu laggwej — penmanship, gram- 
mar, elocgShun, retoric, lojic, &c. In ol ov 
thez he wez trend bl hiz parents and bl sudh 
instructor az cud be seem'd for him. Nor 
woz ibis trenig cenflnd tu hiz yuth ; — he woz 
ever at it, even in hiz old dez; — he cept it up 
til he did. Az a consecwens, the man hu met 
him met hiz madh in almost enithig — not onli 
in athletics, but in lernig and literatm* az wel. 
The lerned clerjiman upon theolojic points con- 
verst with him jinjerli; the fiziShan mezhgrd 
hiz wurdz hwen he toct with him ; the layer, 
hwen tocig tu him, referd tu the prinsipulz ov 
la, az loyerz ar wont tu toe tu old barristerz ; 
hwil the bocsig master and the dansig master 
found in him wun redi tu madh ther best miav- 
ments ; die bulli at reslig wun diat wud yoc in 
with him in eni “holt” he mlt propoz; and the 
dhampion at runnig, wun diat woz redi tu “fut 
it” widi him in a res Short or log. 

In spedh he woz redi. If an assembli woz 
tu be addrest, wether the oc-cezhun woz mo- 
men tus or mirthful, he woz never embarrast 
and never feld tu edifl and plez. He olwez 


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had an opinyun, and wez olwez redi tu ecspres 
it, in eler, ters, lojical laggwej. lie wez entlrli 
fre from degmatizum, — but veri argumentative. 
Dr. Jen Blan, hu wez a member ev the Lej- 
isletip* gv t Neu Jerzi from this eeunti at the 
sem tlm mi grandfather wez, yuzd tu se : 
“Andru Lari sun wez the rediest, die clerest, 
and ths most instructiv specer that ther wez in 
the lejisletiv bedi, and he olwez commanded 
a respect cemmensfhuret with biz abiliti. He 
olwez spec az if he had sumfhig tu se — in a 
dignifid, cler, ters, lojical sill — and hwen he 
had sed hwet he demd important, he cwit ; 
and, if eni wunz eppozd hiz stetments, he 
lisend attentivli tu huever fellod him, and tu 
hwetever the sed. In ol the debets in hwidh 
he pled a part, I never neu him tu be sarcas- 
tic; and I never neu him tu giv an inuendo.” 

In politics, grandfather wez liberal and 
censervativ. Oltho oiwez pritti activ az a 
pelitishan, and efen an effiser, he wez bi no 
menz a i)arti man. At o veri erli tim, he 
wez a federalist. Qfterwardz he becem a 
democrat, Then, az neu, cerrupsfhun at the 
cocus sumtimz becem unberabul. On wun 
ev thez eccezhunz, (in 1836) he and Dr. Jen 
Bleu becem candidets for the Assembli upon 
an anti-cocus ticet. The ticet sucseded, and 
dqrig ther term, hwil at Trent un, the wer rum- 


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mats. Qltho the’ differd in ej bl meni yerz, 
yet the wei* cenjenyal, and ever rsmend fast 
frendz — interdhenjig vizit s and sentiments at 
sfhort intervalz. Freni Dr. Blen 4 hav oflsud 
mudh diat I no ev grandfather’z public Ilf. 
Doctor wez an admirer ev Andru Larisun, 
and never tird ev tocig about him. It ssmd 
tu giv him ecscwizit dsllt tu comment upon 
biz stern integrity hiz unfend filanfhropi, hiz 
redi spedh, hiz ters arggment, and hiz dantles 
curej. Hs yuzd tu tec espesfhal dsllt in des- 
cantig on Andru’z peuer and sucses in prszent- 
ig Bilz tu ths Assembli, and in discusig ths 
merits ev Bilz prszented b! uther memberz. 
And cwlt az mudh dsllt did hs sdio hwen nar- 
retig ths muvments the jeintli med tu fhvvort 
sum dare plot led b! sum bes tricsterz ev ths 
parti tu hwidh the both bs-legd. 

Az au Assembliman hs servd hiz constitu- 
ents and ther interests veri satisfactorili. 0v 
hiz carsr az an Assembliman I lmv herd meni 
men spec tu hiz prez. In this capasiti hs ssmd' 
tu attract yuniversal attenslhun, and command 
ths rsspect ev ol. Az a Lejisletor, hs wez 
sertiuli rsgarded a paragon. Fliz abiliti az a 
dsbeter, hiz redines ev spsdh, hiz ters, lejical 
stll, hiz frage, open manner, and hiz ernestnes 
hsr, if pessibul, mor than elshwer, censplrd tu 
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Az an ©ffiser, 1)8 wez dilijent, and wonted 
everi wun els tu be. I remember wel, hwen 
cwTt smol, herig him, in cenversasbun with 
sum politisban, swar vehementli about a sertin 
fello hu woz a member ov the Lejislatgr hwen 
he woz It semz the fello woz absent dqrig an 
evenig sesshun; the necst mornig tha met; 
grandfather incwird the rezun ov hiz absens; 
the fello replid : u O! ther woz nuthig goig on 
(bat interested me.” It woz grandfather’z 
opinyun that an Assembliman sfoud mac him- 
self interested in evcrifhig that belogd tn (be 
Lejisletgr. And an absens from a siggul ses- 
sfoun or a neglect tu inform wunz self respect- 
ig the merits ov eni Bil tliat woz introdgst woz 
an impardonabul sin — a sin (bat nun but 
tricsterZ and sceundrelz wud commit. 

Nor woz he les dilijent in matterz ov trust. 
Tu defolt, tu him, woz Hel-dezervig. % re- 
member that I wuns herd him tel ov a littul 
toe (bat woz ewit caraeteristic ov him. The 
‘matter stud (bus: Ther woz wun Jon Gren, — 
noted for hiz pleti, standig in the Methodist 
Churdh, and uprltnes — hu woz garden for tu 
or fhre ov hiz on grandchildren. The muni 
hwidb had bin intrusted tu him, he lent on not 
ov hand, tu wun E. C., hu sun after becem 
bagerupt, and az a matter ov cors, Gren woz 
llcli tu luz a part, or the hoi ov the muni. 


Over the matter he grevd mudh, and with vei i 
meni he trld tn advlz az tu hwet he had better 
du. Wun de he met grandfather and began 
tu relet the matter tu him, and tu sec advls ov 
him az tu hwet cors he had better pursq. Tu 
biz incwlriz the old man replid: “ The muni 
iz lest; E. C. haz nufhig wurth luciq after; 
y u can never get a sent ov it; yu had better 
cep the matter out ov the lo, or yu wil liaz 
mor; yu neu E. C. woz a damd rascal, and yu 
ot not tu hav dun biznes with him. Biznes 
men had better cep awe from sudh felloz and 
let the Devil hav them az sun az he wil tec 
them.” 

In the old jentulman’z laqgwej, the man hu 
did not mec hiz promis gud, or in eni we led 
planz tu desev, woz a “damd rascal,” and 
shurli, in hiz judjment, wud suner or leter be- 
cum fqel for the Devil. Inded, the Devil and 
Hel, in hiz sistem ov Filosofi, wer prominent 
factorz. In fact, $ yuzd tu fhiqc that he re- 
joist az mudh, if not a littul mor, that ther woz 
a Hel and a Devil tu punish thoz hu got in it, 
az he did that ther woz a He veil and a mersi- 
ful God tn rial over thoz hu strov tu obe Him. 

Hiz filosofi woz not limited bl this Iff; it delt, 
with the Infinit and the Sternal; and it abound- 
ed in tedhiqz ov a shur reword for gud, and 
sertin and eternal punishment for evil. So far 


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az $ no, he never mad a public profesfhun ev 
relijun; but I rarli, if ever, met a man huz lTf 
temd with mor Cristyan virtgz;— even if he 
did swer. 

Dr. Bleu, hu WGZ an ©ffiser in the Butdh Be- 
formd Cliuidh, yuzd tu s a: verili belev ther 
wez mor pleti in Andria Larisun’z swarig than 
ther iz in the praig ev the most ©v die clerji- 
men. I never herd him swer unles the ©cca- 
zhun wgz ecstraordineri, and then liiz ‘big 
wurdz’ semd tn me tn be the onli fhig that 
cud du justis tu die cos.” 

Hiz benevolens w©z far famd — and liiz hand 
and hiz purs wer ever redi tu ad sudh az wer 
wurthi. “N©u” wgz the tim for him, in everi 
eas ©v ned. “Tumorro” and u sumtTm” he 
semd tn despiz. In Cristyan dgti he had 
sertinli tacen hiz eg fr©m St. Jamz. I hav 
©fen herd the stori told, that wuns upon a tim 
he had a nabur with hum he did not a^rs veri 
wel — in uther wurdz die wer u bad frendz.” 
The nabur w©z industrius and b! hue and bT 
cruc he had got a littul horn, and w©z strugglig 
tu raz hiz famili. Hwen tha met, tha did net 
spec, nor did tha ecsdhanj lues, nor did tha 
ever spec ©v edh uther unles c©mpeld tu du so. 
Erli wun Sunda mornig in Februari nabur 
A’z. lions w©z ©n fir, and amug the foes first 
gatherd at die fir w©z the u old man,” oltiio he 


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livd mudh farther awe than sum ov the neburz. 
Nufliig cud be dun tu sev ether lions or gudz, 
so completli had the fir gotten the assendensi 
befor it vvoz discuverd. Hvven the fir woz 
discuverd, sum ov the dhildren vver in bed, and 
tu escep the flemz, the cem out ov the lions 
with ther clothz in ther handz. A. himself 
had net tlm tu get on ol hiz sgt. The bildig 
woz not insfhurd, and A’z. les woz eomplst and 
minus. Hiz haf-clad famili stud around him, 
slhiverig and wlldli gezig at the fir. Sum ov 
the neburz began tu sfho flier pi t i for flier un- 
fortipiet nebur, bl the yus ov plus wurdz, and 
bl eommendig A. and hiz famili tu the Father 
ov mersiz; utherz began tu sensfhur the man 
becoz he had not got hiz lieus and its contents 
insfhurd, and sed the wild not piti him if he 
went beggig. Utherz began tu wunder hvver 
A. and hiz famili wud find a tern pore ri horn. 

Qmug thoz tocig vver wol-tu-du men luaz 
homz wer les than a ston’z thro from the burn- 
ig bildig. “Men!” sed tiie old jentulman, “we 
must not parli az tu hwot sThal becum ov A. 
and hiz destitute famili. A. and hiz famili can 
ofo horn with me; and we must bild this lion* 

o 

up for him; this pur unforuinet fello iz our 
nebur, and hwen he had a hens he cud berli 
mec a li virj for hiz wlf and famili.” Then un- 
furlig hiz old, leflier pocet-buc and turnig tu 


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tli 8 man in (list res, hg plest sum bilz in biz hand 
and sed : “A! her! tec this! It wil hi sum 

clothz for yu and yin* distrest famili, and go 
up tu ml hens, — yn and yur famili, and Pelli 
wil get sum brecfast for yu, and mec yur horn 
with me until we can bild yu a lieu lieus.” 

Then turniij tu sum terful-id neburz that 
stud gezig, he sed : “It wil cost seven hun- 
dred dellarz tu bild this man a neu hens; ^ 
wil giv a hundred dellarz tu begin the wure 
with and mor if it iz recwlrd: hwet wil edli ev 
yu giv? 

Tlier semd sum diffldens at first, and sum 
toct ev “tumerro;” utherz urjd it wez net the 
de tu beg — it wez Sunde. But, he urjd that 
it wez the de for die lieus tu burn, and for 
hiz nebur tu fol into distres ; and that it wez 
the de for ol ho wisfht tu do so tu help alle- 
viet this sufferig famili. 

Q peper he son sfhept for a subscripsfhun 
list, heded it with hiz on subscripsfhun ev 
$100.00, past it tu utherz, and befor tiie old 
bildig wez entlrli censipnd, ther wez subscribd 
mor than enuf tu put up a neu bildig. He 
then sed: “Jentulmen! Remember that everi 
bed and eveii yutensil in tliis maii’z lieus baz 
bin censipnd bi die demz, and he can net cep 
hens until he haz an eutfit; let us provld it for 
him.” Bl that tlm the centejun had diuroli 


permeated the ar — ol cot the epidemic, — ol 
wonted tu giv ; — and er Pelli Larisun had tun 
tu prepar brecfast for the unforttpiet famili, 
provizhun had bin med for a nen hens and 
neu furnitqr. 

Andru Larisun did net ecspect men tu be 
perfect. In ratig a man he suner so hiz virtgz 
than hiz visez; and he mudh preferd tu pared 
a rnan’z gnd cwolitiz than hiz bad wunz. He 
abhord the man hu conseld hiz folts and mad 
ecstravagant demonstrasfhunz ev gudnes, or 
clamd perfecsfhun. He yuzd tu sa : u Bewar 
ev the man hu haz no vlsez.” 

Sudh woz Andru Larisun. If a wurthi man 
wuz nedi, h wether frend or fo, he found in him 
suj)po:t. Nor wuz the menest beggar slited. 
r Phe most abject found fud and slhelter at hiz 
hous. But az lor) az the wer with him the 
must act ©nurabul. If the did not, the eonse- 
cwensez wer sever. Illustratig this fetpr, $ hav 
herd him tel, and $ hav herd Escwlr Wilsun 
tel, a littul stori wurth relatig. Hwll the hwip- 
pig-post woz yet in vog in Neu Jerzi, a beg- 
gar cold at hiz dor — ascig for a pes ov bred 
and permisfhun tu slep in the barn. The fam- 
ili had not yet had supper; so the beggar woz 
invited in and told tu wat a feu minits until 
supper woz redi and then sup with them. He 
cam in, converst til supper woz redi, at supper, 


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and after supper, woz asslnd a bed in ths eidh- 
en. The bed consisted, in part ov a larj sac ev 
duc-fetherz. In ths mornig hwen thoz hia wer 
His erliest aroz, tha so that ths beggar vvoz 
gon. Hwen grandnurther aroz sfhs discuverd 
that ths bag ov duc-fetherz woz olso gon, and 
sfhs stated ths fact tn Andria, az slis cold him. 
At wuns hs woz egzasperated. Hs had fed 
him and entertend him better than hs had asct 
tn bs. And then tu arlz in ths nit, stsl a part 
ov hiz bed and set out woz a lit t ul mor than 
Nors blud cud bar. Accord igli hs prossded 
tu ths barn at hwidh ml father woz fsdig ths 
horsez: upon enterig ths barn hs sed: “Ben • 
put ths saddul on mi hors; — that beggar, ths 
dnmd rascal, haz stolen a bag ov fetherz and 
I'l hav tu hunt him up.” 

It woz Sunda and pspul wer not astir yet- 
Q seif ov sno had folen dgrig ths svenig; so 
tu trac him woz not difficult. Apparentli ths 
beggar had set out, for Hopwel. Bsyond 
Roctoun ths “old man” overt uc him with ths 
sac ov fetherz on hiz bac. Az hs rod hi ths 
sld ov ths beggar hs addrest him: “Gud 
mornig, Sir! Yu must hav started erli this 
mornig ! “ Yot veri erli” ths beggar respond- 

ed. 

u Wei, yu started bsfor I did, and I ffiot I 
started erli,” sed ths old man. 


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“Started befor yu did!” sed the beggar. 

“Yes, yu started befor S wez up,” sed die 
old man, “and yu hav tacen a part av yur bed 
with yu, S se.” 

Tu diis die beggar mad no repl!. Tharupon 
the old man sed: “II war did yu get dioz 
feflierz ? ” 

Tu this cwestyun the beggar gav sum un- 
satisfactori anser, hwarupen die old man sed: 
“Yu stol thoz fedierz from ml hous, yu damd 
rascal; yu sted a part av the nit at ml hous, 
then stol thez fedierz and started of.” 

Hempen the beggar semd a littul confiizd 
and began tu fies tu thro the bag ev fetherz 
and tac tu the feldz. But the old man sfharpli 
sed: “Don’t yu run yu rascal; Scan run faster 
than yu can. Tac up that bag ov fetherz 
agen and mardh a log with me, bac the wa yu 
cam; S men tu tac yu tu the lnvippig-post.” 

The laggwaj woz so imperativ, and hiz 
dhans for escap so pur that the beggar tuc up 
the fetherz and toted them alog. Hwen dia 
arrlvd at Roctoun, the old man cold upon Es- 
cvvlr Wilsun, and ebtand a warrant for the 
arrest ov the beggar; die old man himself woz, 
at that tim, a Cunstabul. So the thig woz ficst 
tu marc!h die beggar aleg, or tu cep him til 
Munda and then tac him tu the jal at Flcmig- 


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tun. The beggar much dislict tu bs “lict” at 
tbs hwippig-post — bs had bin thar and nsn tbs 
moshunz. So ths old man, tn mac tbs biznes 
az short and az satisfactori az possibul, sed : 
“Mabs yu wud rather bs hwipt hsr! ” — 

Tu this tbs beggar rsplld : “ I wud ! ” 

“ Wei then! lieu meni lasbez shal I giv yu? 
for sudh an offens, thirti nln iz tbs mezhgr at 
Flemigtun.” 

“Wei! giv ms thirti nln hsr!” 

“Hsr, ’Scwlr!” sed ths Cunstabul, “hold ml 
hors til I lie tbs damd rascal and ws wil let 
him go.” 

Ths beggar dria hiz cot, ths cunstabul plld 
ths hwip thirti nin tTmz and the dismist him. 

Escwlr Wilsun yuzd tu laf about tbs mat- 
ter hartili. Hs yuzd. tu sa ths prossdigz wer 
not cwlt regular, but it woz a gud job, and 
that we ov duig it frsd ths count i ov a dsl ov 
ecspens. 

Hiz pscgjyar dispozisbun in casez ov ti*THir) 
annoiansez iz sbon bl anuther littul insident 
hwidh I beg permisbun tu brig in az an episod. 

In ths sprig ov 1845, father woz prsparig 
tu bild tbs hous on ths farm on hwicb mi 
brutber Jon non livz. Az grandfather, for 
meni ysrz, had bin a merchant, bilder &c., &c., 
father consulted him much bsfor, or at ths tim, 


©v mecig the purdhasez ev sudh fhiijz az bild- 
erz lied. Tu purdhas the hard war,- the met at 
the st or ev wun Mgs 81 i, in Lambertvil. 
Both rod horsez ; botli tld thar liorsez ner the 
stor. Grandfather, ev cors, rod old Gre — a 
beutiful hors ev the Jim Crae stec, — ev wurld- 
vvld fern; father rod a littul be mar, ev the 
Tormentor stec, az flet and az lei)- winded az 
Barbz ever ar. Az the wer pasig into the 
stor, tha notist a larj, streg, activ irishman 
egriusli scannig the horsez. Az both horsez 
had a histori, and az old Gra wez so famus 
for biz beuti and biz abiliti az a rodster, nufhig 
stranj wez thot that the frisfhman criticalli 
notist the horsez. But die Irisfhman wez a 
horsman and a hors thef — wun ev thoz derig 
felloz ho wad stel yur hors hwen yu so him 
do it. He had, in sum wg, herd ev old Gra — 
(hat (her wez no hors that cud catdh him en 
the rod; but, ^ suppoz, that he had net bin 
told that old Gra did liiz best wurc onli hwen 
driven bl hiz master, and that in (he handz ev 
a stranjer he wez a ewer hors tu handul, and 
that it tuc a gud horsman tu manej him at ol 

Hwen the wer pritti wcl engajd in egzamin- 
ig lees, hinjez, nalz &c., &c., a bei cam runnig 
into the stor sfheutig : “Mr. Larisun ! G 
man iz runnig awe with yur hors.” 

Ol hasend tu die dor; and sfhor enuf, (he 


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Fishman woz upon old G re. mecig him go az 
best he cud. Father mounted hiz on hors* 
and set out at fid sped. The Fishman, ov 
cors, wonted tu eros die Delawer, at the bridj 
and get into Pensilvenia. Old Gre, az he 
woz not under the manejment ov hiz master, 
intended tu go horn. The rod diat the F’ish- 
man wisht tu folio woz stret tu the bridj that 
ecst ended over the river that dividz the to 
Stats, but it woz crost bl a rod that led tu old 
Gre’z master’z farm. Hwen old Gra nerd 
this cros-rod, the Fishman havig adjusted hiz 
bodi for the stret rod, woz spurrig him up un- 
til the hors woz doig fast wurc. But, at the 
coi nerz, die hors turnd cwicli tu tec die horn- 
ward rod, liwll the Fishman went stret on — 
until he landed on hiz handz and nez, in die 
rod. 

Old Gre, nou rlderles, cem donn tu a mod- 
eret trot, mudh az if nudiig had happend. 
Father rod alog hi die sld ov him, ran hiz arm 
thro die ren, turnd him in die rod and led him 
bac tu the stor. — The Fishman, just then, woz 
no hwer tu be sen. 

But, hwen die wer agen depli engejd, sum 
wun cem runnig into the stor shoutig: “That 
man iz runnig awe with that hors agen.” 
Anuther dhes woz instituted b! mi father, re- 
zultig in die captgrig ov both hors and rider — 


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hu wer brot bac tu tbs stor. Upon ther arriv- 
al, grandfather sternli sed tn die merchant : 
46 Mgs, hav yu a rohld in yur stor?” a Q 
plenti ov them” vvoz 81i’z repll. “Let ms hav 
vvirn, i wont tu lie this damd rascal,” sed dm 
old man. 

The rohld wez brot, and az the old man ad- 
vanst toord the irishman, the irishman began 
tu “sho fit;” and began tu dro of hiz cot. 
But, bi the tun the cot woz deun far enuf tu 
lev the sholderz her, doe old man woz ner enuf 
tu pll the lash, everi stroc ov hwich woz follod 
bi blud. Hwen he had got wun arm entlrli 
out ov the slev, die irishman so hiz pllt vvoz 
ridicplus az wel az panful, and, startig of on a 
haf trot, trld tu reples hiz cot; but, sumhou, 
he becem entagguld in die ann-holz, and cud 
not get it on agen. So, amid die shouts and 
lafter ov the croud that had gatherd, the irish- 
man and the old man, both on a haf run, went 
up the stret, the irishman strugglig tu get hiz 
cot on, the old man tu pll the lash mor cenli. 

Hwen the old man cem bac tu the stor, 81 i 
sed tu him: ‘‘Audio! Qr yu not afred he 
wil put the lo on yu?” Andru replld: “No! 
not a bit; yu’l never se the damd rascal around 
her agen.” 

And die did not se him agen. But dia herd 
ov him, — both respectig the hwippig and re- 


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spectig hors-stelig. That evenig he cold upon 
a Fizisfhan in Trentun, 16 mllz awe, for a 
prescripshun for hiz sor bac. Upon egzaminig 
hiz bac, tbs Fizisfhan bed: “Yur bac, lues az 
it wild, if yu had bin hwipt at the hwippig- 
post; hav yu bin ther?” “No,” replld the 
Padi; “but me cos iz mu dll laic it wud be if 
1 had bin that*. 1 woz at Lambertvil this 
mornig ; and for a troiflig ©ffens an ©uld, gre- 
lieded divil, fel foul ©v me hwll 1 woz troiig tu 
get of me cot tu bocs him; and hwen i had 
dron me cot a littul we he began upon me 
sfholderz and over me armz with a bit ov a ro- 
hld, dia yu se? And the euld divil, lianduld 
the hwip so smartli that he did me ol this in- 
jgri befor i cud get out ov hiz we; i niver so 
a man handul the lash so desintli, in ol meloif.”' 

Tu this the Doctor replTd : “He had no rlt 
tu hwip yu lie this. Hwl did yu not turn on 
the old fello?” 

“ ClsTh ! and that it iz hwot i woz duig hwen 
he woz betig ov me ; a tfhrlig tu get of me cot 
tu giv meself mor fredum; — and Pi be botherd 
if® didn’t get tagguld in me cot slevz, and die 
stroips cem on me bar sholderz so hard and so 
fast hwll 1 w oz strugglig with me cot, diat $ 
thot if 1 cud onli get from under hiz dfhi op- 
pi gz nou, he wud never catdh me ther agen.” 

Qbout a wee leter the irishman rod a hors 


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from a stabul in Trentun, and the hors woz 
never found ; — ©ltho the Srisfhman sian cam 
bae. 

This sed Mas 81i wez nsr die sam aj with 
grandfather. Tha wer old accwantansez and 
wer olmost niadhez, at the lest in athletics. 
Hwen both wer mor than ati ysrz old, the ran 
a fut-ras in wun ov the strets ev Lambertvil. 
Hwidh cam out victor, 1 du net no; but it 
haz olwaz bin eurrentli told thnt tha ran lie 
boiz, that both mad gud tlm, and an abundans 
ov sport for an admirig croud. 1 hav herd 
grandfather spec ov die ras with prld ; olso, 
hav herd him sa that hwen the ras with 81i 
woz dun, he offerd tu bet a hundred dollarz 
dmt he cud outrun, for 150 yardz, eni man ov 
seventi yerz or upwardz, in the Stat. 

Grandfather woz not fonder ov fut-rasii] 
than he woz ov dansig. He woz olwaz redi 
for a dans. And at dansir) he woz az apt az 
he woz at rasiij. J stil met old foes hia clam 
cinsfhip widi me becoz tha had sen ml grand- 
father dans. At die prezent, die number ov 
pepul hm yuzd tu se him dans iz smol. But, 
twenti flv yerz ago, hwen J settuld at this 
plas in the practis ov medisin, die number woz 
larj. At tiiat tlm, if 1 dhanst tu be introdqst 
tu a stranjer, Ilia ranjd from middul Ilf tu old 
aj, no ditferens hwar he livd ; it semd tu me, 


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that wun fhig invuriabli follod. It vvoz this : 
“Qr yu a defendant ©v Andru Larisun the 
drover?” Tu mi anser that I am a desendant 
ov him, I olwaz nsu that I wud her the trlt, old 
statment: “Wei! Pv sen him dans meni a 
tlm.” And tn this I hav ofen herd die addi- 
sfhunal remarc: “He vvoz the most gresful 
danser that ever ‘stept’ on a dor.” 

I no sumdiig ov hiz abiliti tu dans, in hiz 
old dez. At hiz on lions woz a weddiij hwen 
he vvoz about 84 yerz old. I, and perhaps ol 
hiz grandchildren, and sum ©v hiz grat grand- 
dhildren, wer gests. Domini Tounz ov the 
Prezbiterian Churdh at Mountari pronounst 
die marrij seremoni ov Wilyam Celli and Em- 
ma Prol.* Hwen supper vvoz ended, befor the 
Domini had left, grandfather propozd a dans 
and invited the Domini tu “tac a step” with 
him. The Domini declind tecir) a “step” with 
him az he fhot it vvoz hardli in cepig widi a 
Domini’z vocesfhun tu tac part in a public 
dans; but lie sed: Mr. Larisun ! I wud be 

plezd tu se yu and the rest ov die boiz indulj 
in a cvviet dans.” 


*Emma Prol wez a lies ev Gnt Mari and Ugcul Andru Lari- 
sun. She gru up intu wumanhud in grand fattier’ z famili, and 
wez gratli estemd bi him and bl ol lm neu her. Accordipli, 
liwen she marrid, the mad a first clas weddip parti and the liens 
wez fildwith gests — and ther wez a merri tim thar, and tile mer- 
riest ev ol wez old grandfather. 


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Tu this, grandfather, with hiz wanted cwio 
nes, rsplld : “Yu shal ss it, — cum boiz and 
girlz; we vvil sfho ths Domini that ws no lion 
tu dans. Strlc up ths mqzic.” 

In an instant hs had pict hiz set ev at, ths 
mqzie struc up, and ths dans went on — tu ths 
grat dsllt ov ol — espeslialli tu ths Domini and 
liiz wlf. Bl ths tlm ths lnlariti attendig this first 
“set” began tu subsld, ths Domini, hu in erli 
Ilf, hs sed, had bin veri fond ov dansig, sed tu 
ms and Lambert Serjent (Loyer Serjent ov 
Lambertvil) hia stud tugether nsr bl him : 
“ That old man iz az gresful a denser az I hav 
ever ssn on ths flor; and, tu nit, hs stept better 
than eni uther persun in tiis set.” 

At ths Domini’z rsmarc I woz a littul morti- 
fld. For, I woz wun ov ths at hia wer upon ths 
flor; and hwll at collej, I had olwaz bin redi tu 
madh eni fello, ov eni ej, hi! wild ventqr tu 
dans with ms. And then tu bs “shaded” bl 
nil grandfather 84 ysrz* old, woz a littul un- 
ecspected. But, in an instant or tu, I rscuv- 
erd snuf tu drol out amid ths ha-liaz ov ol hu 
so mi sitqashun : “Yes! hs dansez pritti 
wel.” 

An u filer set or tu had ambuld over ths flor 
hwen grandfather propozd tu hav a “set” in 
hvvidh for jenerasfhunz ov ths Laris un famili 


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wer reprszented. Accordiijli, himself, hiz sun, 
Jon W. Larisun, wun ev Jen W. Larisun’z 
grands unz and mlself, vvitii liwet lediz 4 hav 
forgotten, went upon the flor tu du our best — 
at the lest, 4 did. But die Domini stuc tu it, 
that the old man woz the best “ stepper” diat 
went upon die dor. 

In hiz do, dansir) woz a common annizment; 
and tu be an accomplish danger woz wurfh 
hwll. Hiz ecstcnsiv biznes led him into an 
accwontans widi veri mold, in vorius parts ev 
the cuntri, and hiz accomplishments led him 
intia the accwantans ov veri meni mor. 
Hwarever he woz, if dansig woz in order, he 
woz s r hur tu be invited tu “tac a step;” and 
if he woz at a public lions, at hwidh a dddel 
woz scredhii), no matter az tu the sparsnes ov 
foes, nor thsr dispozisfhun tu dans, with sum 
ov them he wud be upon the dor. Tu illustret 
this trot ov caracter, a stori diat Doctor Blon 
yuzd tu tel, iz in point. — Dr. Bleu livd at Per- 
rivil, or az it yuzd tu be cold “The Hieori 
Tavern,” in the northern part ev die ceunti ov 
Hunterdun. Everi ysr, in sleig-tlm, grand- 
father yuzd tu vizit him; and ev cors, at die 
Tavern, grandfather wud hav a dans. Wuns 
upon a tlm, hwen he arrlvd at the Tavern, the 
dddel woz scredhig, but dier wer nun dansig, 
and ther semd tu bs nun dier that wer dispozd 


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tu dans; — ol ssmd tu bs men — ov tbs “ clod- 
hopper sort. Tbs old man lnct around in- 
evvizitivli az bs held Bleu hi tbs band, and 
sed: “Hon iz this Doetor? — gud sleir) and 
gud fiddlig and no dansii)! — Qr ther no lediz 
about? — J must bav a dans.” 

Blenrsplld: “Tbs landlords wlf and do- 
terz, J ges, ar sumhwer about.” 

Therupon tbs old man past intu ths parlor, 
(hwidh woz wnmanles) ; from that pies intu 
dis cidhen, in hwidh tbs landledi woz prsperig 
dinner, and her tu doterz wer sjnnnii) flacs. 
The had ol ssn Andru Larisun ofen snuf, and 
bad ssn him dans, and at wuns gest biz errand. 
Hs saluted them: “Gnd mornig iediz: Don’t 
yu bsr that fiddel ? Sudh nnizie and sudh 
sleiij and yu bizi in ths cidhen ! Cum ! Let 
us hav a dans.” 

So seig, bs plest hiz arm around tbs west 
ov tbs doter nsrest tu him, lifted her upon her 
fst, earrid her acros tbs rum tu tbs hwsl with 
bwidh tbs utber doter woz spinnig, tuc her in 
biz uther arm and prossded intu tbs rum in 
hwidh tbs fiddler woz. Az hs enterd, with biz 
girlz strugglig tu get awe from him, or tu 
mee sum ecsplaneshun tu him, bs sed: “Hsr 
Bleu! hav brot yu a partner! Fiddler, 
giv us sumfhig llvli non ; — 5 must lmv a littul 
dans bsfor J hav mi dinner.” 


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Blan dsclind tu tec wun ov hiz girlz az a 
partner. Az hs wgz a nsr nabur and an inti- 
met acewantans, hs nsu a fact in the cas that 
cempeld him tu du so. The girlz had latli 
mad a profesfaun ov rslijun and had just bin 
baptlzd intu the dhurdh. But ov this fact hs 
had no dhans tn tel grandfather. Az hs rs- 
fqzd, grandfather graspig sdli ladi firmli bl ths 
arm, ths wun on hiz rlt, ths uther on hiz left, 
sed: “Wei, $ wil dans with both lediz mlself! 
Strlc up that mgzie.” 

Ths nnizic struc up, and with it ths old 
man’z fst cept pas alon for an instant, and 
then ths girlz, sther forgetful ov ther dhurdli 
vouz, or els overcum hi ths swasivnes ov ths 
mgzic and ov ths old man, “set tu” in a dans 
that mad ths hous llvli. Ths landlord and 
landladi, with ths gests, 1 net on in dslit. 

Blan yuzd tu sa: “In a bol-rum, I never 
so a mor dharmig spectacul ! Thoz tia yug 
ladiz, ecscwizit danserz, in ths bliam ov yuth — 
frs from ths furbsloz ov dres that so mudh 
dstract from ths ladi danger — artlesli attlrd 
and az fresh az rozez in a Ma mornig, trippig 
it with a wil — wun sdh sld ov that gra hard 
old man hiaz form woz perfeeshun and hiaz 
miavment woz ths perfecsfhun ov art, mad a 
spectacul that transended everifhig I hav ever 
ssn, or enithig I hav red ov.” 


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Dqrig ths dans, vizitorz cimided intu the 
bol-rum until it get pritti wel fild up, — tu se, 
az the sed, “Andru dans.” 

But ths old man wez net satisfld with wun 
“set.” Hwll ths fiddler vvez fhrumig and esig 
hiz strigz, Andru wez propozig tu ths girlz 
that tha dans with him a sertin favorit old tim 
“step,” that recwlrd accemplisfht fst tu per- 
form. Ths bargin Avez sun mad. Ths mpzic 
started, ths trio fellod Avith a nimbulnes, gres 
and zest that commanded rsspcct and held ths 
spectatorz olmost brethles. 

Tlwen ths dans wez over, elaspig ths land- 
ladi bl ths hand hs sed: “Yur doterz ar 
ecsellent danserz; 5 ecspeet tha havlernd sum 
ev it from yu.” 

Tu fiiis ths landladi rsplld: . “But, yu ot 
net tu hav dun so.” 

“Qt net tu hav dun hwet?” sed grandfather. 

“Yu ot net tu hav tacen ml doterz en ths flor 
tu dans/’ sed shs. 

u HwI net?” sed hs. 

“HwT, yu no that tha hay both just bin 
tacen intu dhurdh ; and yu no hwet a toe it 
wil mac, don’t yu?” sed shs. 

“Sha!” sed hs; “that didn’t hurt them; it 
never hurts eni dhurdh member tu dans; it 
duz ttiem ‘gud.’” 


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Hiz miavments upon tbs flor wer marct with 
gret leviti, and grot nimbulnes. For a man 
ev biz wet, hs mod tbs lsst pessibul sdiecig or 
jarrig ev tbs flor. It woz biz custum, at tbs 
lsst in biz old dez, it' dansig with men, az tbs 
set broc and the wer lsvig tbs flor, tu jump up, 
and strlc biz 1st Inge (her flirs tlmz bsfor bs 
allted upon tbs flor. This hs did liwen bs tuc 
[>art in tbs dans at thsabuv liemd weddig, and 
old az hs woz, tbs rsport ov tbs flirs strlcs wer 
veri distinct, and biz alltment upon tbs flor 
med olmost az littul neiz az ths alltment ov a 
eat hwen jum pig from a char tn ths flor. 

Andru Larisun woz veri sensitiv. Hs woz 
veri cerfnl not tu offend. And, an offens, or 
an insult, efferd tu him, bs never alleud tu pas 
unnotist. Tbs persun hu derd tu insult him, 
woz at wuns invited tu settul (hs matter. 
This brot him into meni a fit. Qltbo I bav 
gud rszun tu bslsv bs did not lie tu fit, hs woz 
not a eeuard, and hs wild not ysld an indli 
tn prsvent a combat. I hav herd old men tel 
that the had ssn him in mor than wun fit — and 
had never ssn him madht. Yuzgalli, the sed, 
hs me<l ewic wurc ov it; — efen hs gev but a 
siggul bio. The sed bs yuzgalli hit hwer bs 
wisht, and az bs wisfht ; and biz combatant 
rerli hit him, so decstrus woz hs az a bocser. 

But, hs woz sumtlmz hit; and scarz bshad; 


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and hs woz not diffident in sfhoig them. Nor 
avoz hs diffident in tociij about the fits hs lmd 
bin in, nor did hs spsc slltigli ov thoz hum hs 
had fot. I vvuns herd him so that hs had 
never struc at a man tu fel him, Avithout nocig 
him doun. $ olso herd him sa that hs avoz 
never noet doun. I olso herd him sa that in 
a fit, hs had az mudli feffi in liiz fst, az hs 
had in hiz fists; — that hs cud put the to ©v 
hiz but, Avith unerig sertinti, agenst a man’z 
stumac or under hiz dhin, Avith a fors that 
never fold tn end the fit; and in this avc, it iz 
sed, in a feu casez, hs ended ths fltirj capasiti 
ov hiz opponent forever. 

Wuns hs sfhu ms a larj scar, a littul bslo 
hiz arm-pit. It woz effected hi a man’z tsffi. 
Lafigli hs gav ms ffis histori ov it hwidh avoz 
sumhwot lie this: Sum tuf, Aviffii, cworrelsum 
fello offended him for ths purpus ov institgtig 
a fit. Ths fello had bin intu several sevvob- 
bulz, and had, sdh tlm, cum of first best. t Is 
avoz tuf and cud stand a noc-doun without 
ssrius rszults; and, hvven doun, cun lie, if hs 
cud get hold ov hiz combatant, hs did hiz best 
fltig. Grandfather considerd him no madh, 
and suppozd that a felig bio avoz ol that avoz 
rscvvlrd. II wen struc, ths fello went doun szi ; 
but, sumhou ths fello manajd tu get hold ov 
him and tu brig him doun tu. Ths trie ov 


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tbs fello woz tu turn hiz opponent under, and 
then go for tbs Iz. 

But, hiz efforts tu turn Andru Larisun wer 
ineffectual, and then wurcig biz hed around 
sqtabli, be sszd him in ths sld betwsn tbs 
armpit and nippul, witli biz tsth, tacig, az I 
judjd bl ths sear, a larj mouthful. Hsrupon 
Andru puslht tbs fello’z hed of a littul, and 
wifh biz tefh, sszd the fello’z sr elos deun tu 
biz bed, and in tu bits cut the sr from hiz hed- 
Az hs woz nippig biz tsfh thru, in macig ths 
second bit, ths fello sug out for “cworterz.” 
Andru got up wifh the fello’z sr in biz mouth, 
dhuig it lustili. Hs yuzd tu lafigli sa : “That 
iz ths onli tlm I ever tasted r© sous/’ 

Andru Larisun livd in a da in hwidh fltig 
woz faslhunabul. That be appruvd die cus- 
tum ws hav ssrius douts. Hwen spscig about 
it, hs yuzd tu sa, “it woz ruf wurc; but ws 
did so then.” 

In hiz da, hors-rasig woz fasfhunabul; but 
in it hs tuc no stoc. And yet hs llct a gud 
hors; and the older Larisunz wer famus hors- 
men. Rum-drigcig and gamblig so mudh in 
vog hwen hs woz yug, hs abominated. 

Hiz jsnyus led him tu specglatig. And az 
log az I nsu him, hs woz a drover on a larj 
seal — manli brigig sfhsp intu this Stat from ths 


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“Lee cuntri” (in Yore Stat) or frem the 
west, (Ohio, Indiana, &c.) 

In erli daz, befor rel-rodz wer plentiful — 
drovig woz a hiznes that wez sucsesfulli con- 
ducted onli bl a man oy enterpiiz, endgrans 
and abiliti. Capital woz neded, danjerz wer 
tn be encounterd and hardships wer tu be 
born. In thoz erli daz, tu go tu the Lec-cun- 
tri (onli out in the western part ov Yore Stet, 
noli scersli mor than a dez juri i,) collect a 
drov ov fhre, for or flv fhouzand shep, and drlv 
them everi fut ov the we intu this counti, woz 
not a smol job. It yuzgalli tuc from sics wees 
tu tu months tu du it. And if he went tu 
Canada, or tu Ohio, or Indiana, it tuc stil 
logger. But sudh woz hiz biznes, and he semd 
tu lie it. I fhige I never so him in a better 
mud than he woz wun ecsesivli dusti afternun 
in (he hottest wether in Qgust, — then wel ni 
seven ti yerz old — folloig alog after a drov ov 
3,500 shep hwidh he and hiz sun Jon, with a 
trup ©v handz, had driven from the Lec-cuntri. 
Az tha muvd sloli alog, the dust went up in 
cloudz — and tu tel hwot woz the culur ov the 
men, or ov ther clothig, or ov die shep, or ov 
die drover’z horsez, woz impossibul, — so hevili 
wer (he cuverd with dust. 

I remember the ©ccurrans wel. In the stil- 
nes ov the sultri afternun, far over die wudz 


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toord ths Delawer River, ws so cloudz ov dust 
rlzig; farther ef the ssmd tu 1)8 flotig over the 
forest, lie mists ov fog. Old Benjamin Bodln, 
a nebur, had cold at mi father’z hous upon an 
errand; he so the dust, and wlz in ths inter- 
preteshun ov the fenomena ov thoz dez, sed : 
“Q drov iz cumig.” We wotdht the cloudz — 
neu wunz aroz and flitted awe. Pritti sun the 
dust roz nerer hi and in denser cloudz, far 
abuv the tops ov the forest trez, — and then, far 
doun the rod we tliot, we so shep, and men 
drTvig them — the van ov the drov. Az the 
progrest, the dust aroz in cloudz so dens that 
non yu cud se the drlverz and non the dust hid 
them from veu. The muvment woz slo and 
the tren woz log. Bodln ho woz lucig intentli 
at the spectacul, ecsclemd: “Wei, that iz a 
monstrus drov, and from the slz ov it, 5 thigc 
it belogz tu old Cwiczel, or tu Andro and Jon 
Larisun. 

J woz but a lad; and ov cors, fill ov curiositi. 
Az sun az 5 cud get permisfhun tu do so, 5 
ran over tu a fevurabul sit alog the rod, and 
sat upon the ston wol, tu se die sfhep and the 
foes and ther horsez pas. Az the cem ner tu 
the hi fens-corner on hwidh ® sat, 5 natural li 
wotdht tu se h wether ther wer eni indicesfhunz 
that the drov beloggd tu grand fattier, and 
h wether he woz with the men. Shep past and 


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men past, and ©1 wer so depli cuverd with 
dust that everi sfhep lnct lie everi uther sfhsp, 
and everi man luct lie everi uther man, until J 
so far toord the rer, a veri erect form, corn- 
ua andigli steppig alog, with clothz, fhot, a lit- 
tul better adapted, in sdiap and stll, tu the 
biznes, than thoz worn bi the rest, — swaig a 
stout hwip-stec, armd with a veri log lasdi, — 
just az depli cuverd with dust az the rest — but 
mor activ and mor statli than eni uther man 
with the drov. At first $ cud onli just descri 
him thru the thic cloudz ov dust that wer ©1 
the hwil rlzig from the fet ov the sfhep; but, 
az he brot up the rer, and az a fin lucig hors, 
lus in the rod — armd with saddul-bagz, and 
laden with a larj bundul ov clothz strapt tu 
hiz saddul, woz lezhurli folloig him — nou nip- 
pig at the levz ov sum pendant brandhez, or 
dalliig bi the wasid — nou hasenig toord the 
man ov statli form, $ conjectgrd, az tha past 
me, that that man woz grandfather,' — so cuverd 
with dust that hiz fetgrz wer not apparent. 
Farther on the fhig woz deslded. Hwen he 
had past and the tu horsez lus in the rod — 
armd with saddul-bagz and the bundulz strapt 
behind thar saddulz had mojd bi, J luct up the 
wa toord the. gat that opend intu father’z 
farm. J so that a man had opend the gat and 
that <he sfhep wer rusfhig intu father’z feld. i 


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hesend toord die get tu se diem enter; in 
scwodz die eem, then in siggul fil, — then in a 
croud — then an interval ov stragglig stlisp — 
then a croud — then a siggul fll in a log 
lln; — sdh parsel follod bl a man huz biznes it 
woz tu C8[) ths drov sigguld out, or distributed 
az mudh az possibul — tu cep die shep from 
croudig and suffocetig and tu let wagonz, 
horsez and futmen pas thru without dele tu 
diem or injqri tu die shep. 

At legdi di8 last shep earn, — sloli limpig 
and werili wocig du o the get, and after them 
the old Drover, with hiz larj hwip-stoe armd 
with a log lash. Then follod the horsez, armd 
with then* saddul-bagz and bundulz ©v clothig, 
romig lus behind the drov — nippig the gras, — 
pransig around after the droverz, and havig a 
gad tim jeneralli. 

The Gre hors, az he cam thru the get, 
holted, — widi hiz lied apperentli over the old 
Drover’z sholder, tuc a brod serve ©v the en- 
vironz, prict hiz erz, rezd hiz crest, stredlit 
himself up until he displed ol dioz grand 
cwolitiz that distiggwisfh the Qrebian stoc, 
and ned vosiferusli. He recognizd the pies 
az hiz old horn; in this feld he had canterd 
hwen a colt, her he had pled with hiz mets 
meni a de, and he semd tu remember the gud 
timz ov yor. He had bin bred in mi father’z 


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stebul, and rerd on ml father’z farm. Hiz 
vois wez yet az wel rsmemberd bl thoz with 
hwidh lie yuzd tu pie, az bT ms; and in an 
instant, from a distant fsld, lie an eco, cem a 
rsspensiv ne from hiz haf sister. But Jim Crac 
nether canterd about nor hesend tu die horn 
ev hiz colthud ; but, hs with the hors that be- 
logd tu hiz master’z partner, fellod clos behind 
the old Drover, az he, with hiz partner and 
helperz, wended ther we around the shep-feld 
tu se that ol woz lit, — and thens tu ml father’z 
hous, — az drover’z horsez wer trend tu du. 
Tu be sdrnr, wuns in a hwll, hiz loud ne med 
the welcin rig, and az die eco cem from the 
wudz, or the responsiv ne from hiz haf-sister, 
cem from a distant feld, he prict hiz erz, rezd 
hiz crest, and, for an instant, stept cwicli, or 
assgmd a semi-prans. But the old Drover 
ped az littul attensfhun tu the behevyur or the 
hwerabouts, ov hiz hors, az he did tu eni wun 
ov hiz helperz — and yet in thoz saddul-bagz 
wer ol the valgabulz — if not the muni-rol, — 
and in that budjet strapt behind the saddul, 
wer the entir stoc ov clothig that he had tecen 
with him on this arduus trip. 

II wen die anivd at the hous, hwll yet in the 
doryard — under the old per tre, and a hip 
wepig-willo that sflieded the wel — ther woz a 
grand tlrn at dustig, shecig and betig hats and 


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vests, swspig and brusfaig clodiz, cracig joes 
and rsceuntig die insidcnts ev the do. Ths 
oldest wun in the parti wez the most beiistti, 
and yet the, most dignifld and cemmandig. 
Then fellod tbs wesfhig, — handz, fasez, hedz, 
necs, legz and fst ; — and az 5 pumpt tbs woter 
for them tn wesfh with, J thot tha wer yuzig 
barrelz ev it, and pGimdz gy sop. But liwen 
dun, and thar hedz wer comd, az tha stud in 
a lln under lbs old willo tre, dm luct lie a ro 
gy m\ pinz. 

Msnhwll tbs tu horsez, with thar lodz stil 
Gn — unattended and net tld tn enidiig, stud in 
tbs lan, lucig over dis fens az if the nen ol that 
Jransplrd and sfhard in ol that wez enjeiabul. 
Oceazhunalli wun or tbs uther gy them wud 
hwinno eocsigli, az if tu invit a littul atten- 
sdiun, or tu asc for sum woter, or tu bs tecen 
tu tbs stabul. And hwen ths men buz biznes 
it wez tu car for them, started tu tac them tu 
ft s stabul, tbs horsez met diem at ths yard 
gat, and fellod sdh biz grum — Jim Crac, az 
ws then cold him, for hs had net yet gron old 
and beeum “Old Gra” — pransig and dansig 
lie a wor-hors tu marshal mgzic. 

Thsz sdisp had neu rsdht thar destinasfhun, 
wer in marcet, and for sal. Tbs droverz and 
thar belperz sun spred tbs ngz that a drov 
ev sThsp wez at a sertin plas and that ths Shsp 


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wer for sel. Erli the folloig mornig the neburz 
from farmz ner bl and from thoz mHz a wo, 
wer gatherig in tu purdhas a ng floe, or a 
suppll tu recrut a herd that had bin thind out 
bl selz tu butdherz or bl dizsz — or los bl the 
ravejez ov dogz. So, log bsfor nun the began 
tu “handul” die slhep. The wer sold at the 
ret ov $2.75 per hed for die pic ov die floe; 
$2.50 per hed for die gud sdiep in lots ov a 
hundred edh. Pur sfhep cud be hot az lo az 
$ 1.50 per hed in lots ov 50 or mor edh. 

Dgrig the de and the de folloig, die selz in 
smol lots — from 10 tu 50 edh wer rapid, — un- 
til the neburhud woz supplld. On die mornig 
ov the third de, the liorsez wer sadduld, the 
drov — then redgst tu les than 2,700 — wer 
driven tu Plezant Corner — nln mllz awe — die 
horn ov Jon W. Larisun, the jgnyur partner. 
Az die sfhep past intu, and alog the rod, die 
dust roz agen in dens cloud z, and az the wend- 
ed ther we estward, the cgmglus form ov die 
dust-cloudz marct ther cors and flitted awe 
with the hezi er until lost tu veu. 

At Plezant Corner the drov stopt tu dez — 
until ol in that visiniti liu wislht tu bl sfhep, 
had purdhast hwot the neded. It then muvd 
toordz and thru Munmuth, stoppig tu sel bl 
the we at sudh convenyent points az Hopwel, 
Blaenburg, Cigstun, Eoci Hil, Jemzburg, 


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Igglisfhteun and Frshold — the rent leg fellod 
bl the pepglar droverz non az tbs Larisunz. 

Drovig in erli tlmz wez attended with meni 
a hardship and meni a danjer; and nun but 
the stoutest and most curajus embarct in it. 
In erli tlmz eur bagcig sistem wez so dsfectiv 
and eur fasilitiz for cemnriunicasfliun bstwsn 
tbs bagcs, and tbs wont ev cenfldens bstwsn 
tbs bagcerz, renderd it olmost impessibul tu 
dspezit muni in a bagc, at bom, and dro it eut 
ev a bagc, az ws neu dia, far awe — amug entlr 
stranjerz— bwar net a man noz yu frem a 
sitizen ev Jamaca — nor carz tu no yu. Hens 
it wez nesesseri that tbs drover carrid upen 
hiz bedi, or in hiz saddul-bagz, hwetever muni 
hs thot wud bs nsded tu purdhas biz stec, and 
tu dsfre ths ecspensez ev transportig it. Hens, 
hwen wun met a drover — and yu cud tel wun 
az redili az yu can tel a Methedist minister or 
a scliI tsdher — bs nsu, if bs wez in cwest ev a 
drov, that bs had with him perhaps $3,000, — 
bl no msnz a smol temptasfhun tu bandits, 
brigandz and rebberz lna yuzd tu bs so ng- 
merus and hu yuzd tu infest so meni ev tbs eut- 
ev-ths-wa plasez thru bwidh droverz wer cem- 
peld tu go. And then, so mudh ev tbs tim His 
drover must bs alon; or els with sudh help az 
hs cud sscgr bwar hs collected hiz drov, or 
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persunz wer efen az untrustwurthi az ths rob- 
berz themselvz — if indsd (be wer net bandits 
under disglz- — rcdi tu eoeperet with a band ey 
frebuterz hwen tbs signal woz given. 

And then tbs msnz av dsfens waz so inferi- 
or — so ineffisfhent. Tbs revolver had net yet 
bin invented. Ths hevi loded hwip-stoc, ths 
nif, and ths old-tlm pistol with hwidh yn cudn’t 
bit a barn twenti yardz awe, nor drlv a bullet 
thru a man’z cot, if yn stud rlt bi him, wer ths 
sol implements ev dsfens ev ths drover upon 
ths rod, or at biz lodjigz. Ths implements ov 
dsfens upon hwidh Andria Larisun most rslid 
woz hiz hwip-stoc. And tu ss him handul 
this, az a wepon, woz a sit tu bshold. Tu a 
decstrus mampverig ©v this hs woz trend — or 
rather tu ths mampverig ov this hevi hwip-stoc 
bs bad trend himself until tu strlc him with 
enithirj in ths sTiej) ov a club, sord, or uther 
object yuzd in fensig, woz cwlt az impossibul 
az tu tudh with a sord, ths sr ov a fensiij 
master; and at ths sent tun, with it hs wud 
dsl a bio upon eni object — man, bsst or eni- 
thii) els — with unerig sertinti. Hs never hezi- 
teted tu disple hiz scil in dis handlig ov ths 
hwip; nor woz hs slo tu tel ov sircumstansez 
hwen hiz decsteriti in this lln servd him wel — 
perhaps sevd hiz Ilf. 

Q feu wurdz about liiz hwip — hwidh differd 


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but littul from sudh az I yuzd tu se carrid bl 
uther droverz. It consisted ov a veri log, hevi, 
lash, ficst tu a veri stout, hevi stoc, about tu 
and a haf or dire fst log and about an indh 
and a cworter in diameter at the larjer or hand 
end. The outer cuverig ov tins hwip-stoc 
differd in no particular from that found upon 
uther gnd hwips. But within this cuverig, at 
die lest thre forths ov the wa up the stoc, woz 
a metallic tub — ov Turn, I fhigc, — did with led. 
This gev tu that end ov the hwip, gret wet, 
and in no we detracted from the yuzabiliti ©v 
the hwip, hvven die lash woz tu be plld. But 
hwen the stoc woz tu be yuzd az a thig ov de- 
fens, it woz sezd bi the lash-end, and this hevi 
leded end woz med tu cum doun upon an 
offender’ z lied with sudh fors az woz shur tu 
fel him, — if it did not carri a part ov the scul 
with it doun upon a contgzd bren, and cil the 
injgrd persun at wuns, — a thig that ©fen hap- 
pend. Az yuzd bl a man lidig a hors, or 
rldig in an open vehicul, it woz a veri effi- 
shent — a veri dedli wepon, — mudh mor relid 
upon— espeshalli bi droverz, inerlitlmz, — than 
the pistol or die lilf. 

An old drover trend tu the yus ©v the hwip, 
plld the log lash with surprlzig decsteriti. Tu 
noc a fippenni-bit — a silver coin valgd at 65 
sents — yet in vog hwen I woz a scul boi — of 


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from the end ev a can, held a lit tul ahuv wun’z 
hed, without sensibli strlcig hie cen, woz a fet 
tu be accomplish befor wun cud be regarded 
scild in the manuverig ev the loij-lasfht hwip. 

This decstcriti in handlig die hwip woz not 
cenflnd tu droverz. J smz Jensun Fisfher, the 
old surveur and cemmisfhuner ov dedz, yuzd 
tu resit meni insidents illustretig the adroit 
handlig ev die hwip hi sudh az rerli drov a 
tern upon the rod. He haz told me mor than 
wuns, that the man hu cud not sit in the drlv- 
er’z bees upon a for hors stej and cut a hors- 
dT of from the hips, or the bac, ev wun ov the 
led horsez — without tudhig a her ov the hors 
upon hwidh the 111 sat, — woz censiderd not fit 
for a stej driver. 

This sed Jemz Jensun Fisfher, an old ac- 
ewentans, and a con fid ig frend, ov ml grand- 
father, but yugger than he hi sum 20 or 25 
yerz, woz ecspert in meni, if not in ©1, ov the 
old athletic manqverigz. And wuns in a hwll 
he yuzd tu divert ml werid spirits hwen colig 
profesfhunalli at hiz lions, bl fhroig the betul 
over the barn, bl sfhutig pe-wez from die com 
ov the barn with a smol pocet pistol, and bl 
practisig the fippenni-bit manqver widi an old- 
fasfhund, blac-snec, cart hwip. And $ hav 
even held up the cen, widi the coin ficst ejwlz 
in a narro gruv liwll the old man — then 80 


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ysrz old — noct the “dp” cler ov die can — the 
veri first, miav — and so net II that I wez not 
^hur the muni or the can had bin tudht until 
I egzamind die end ev die con, and found that 
the coin woz gon. 

The log-lash t hwip, in the handz gv a man 
upon a hors, woz az indicativ that he woz a 
drover, az die sord and phtm ar, diat the hu 
war them, ar plaig soljer. II never wer sen 
vvidi the hwip, hw(*ther the wer or h wether the 
wer not, rldig after shep or cattul, wer consid- 
erd droverz. 

The method ov carriig dier muni, I dont not, 
woz verius; and I dout. not diat ech drovei 
sumtlmz verid hiz on niethGd. But, about 
Andru Larisun’z mediod, I no sumfhig ; — at 
the lest, $ no hwot I so. Wuns upon a tlm, 
az he woz s'tartig after a drov, he cem diria 
In ml fadier’z lions, and stopt for a feu mo- 
ments. I woz but a smol lad, — about big 
enuf tu be everihwer and tu se everifhig. 
Olmost az sun az he enterd the lions he sed tu 
ml muther: u Plana! ml belt iz not eumfurta- 
bul ; and I diigc it nedz a littul ficsig. Can’t 
yu tics it for me?” And liwll so saig he un- 
buttund hiz vest, and shirt, and dru out a 
lether belt — shep-scin, I fhige, — in hwidli wer 
several pllz— not rolz — ov bagc nots. It woz 
about dire indhez wld and consisted ov a pes 


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ev lether nlsli folded and ristli stidht, in sudh 
a we az tu mec a leg, speslhus pecet, in hwidh 
tbs bilz wer plest Hat, aiid legfhwlz ev tbs 
belt — littul pll after littul pH, until His pecet 
bwidh eestended almost, tbs entir legth ev His 
bell wez ful. Hwen worn, it wez buculd 
areund biz west, neest, tn tbs scin. In this 
sitgesbun, hs sed it wez His Isst cumbers am, 
His isst llabul tn bs lest, tbs most difficult tn 
bs rsdht bl bandits, and His sziest tu dsfend. 

Ecseptig a smol amount. tn dsfre cuirent 
ecspensez, hwetever muni bs bad with him, bs 
cept in Hiis belt and His belt hs eept ever 
buculd areund him. 

In thoz erli tlmz, a drover’z sscgriti, dgrig 
hiz ste at a tavern, wez net gre ter than it wez 
hwll upen tbs rod — sven hwen pasig thru un- 
frscwented and infested wez. Rebberiz at 
tavernz wer cemmen ; and murderz attendig 
rebbei'iz, wer net infrscwent . Tu slsp then az 
His rabbits du, wez a nssessiti wiHi droverz. 
And, meni accwlid a dsgrs ev wecig that ds- 
fld olmost eni neiz, beuever fent, til eccur 
witbeut awecig them. Such wez His cendi- 
shun ev Andiia Laris un. 

I bav herd him giv sum ev hiz ecspsriensez 
that byppend tu him in His erlier tlmz ev hiz 
carsr az a drover. At His dsscripshun ev 


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sum ev them the liar ev wun’z lied wild stand 
011 end, and the Iz wud get veri w!d open, and 
a dhil wud perved die hoi frem. 

4 hav herd him relet an incident that eccui'd 
tn him sirmhwer in Yore Slet. He woz vizit- 
ig a mi secsfhun in ewest gv a drov. The 
rod for a log w 8 led thro narro, dare and wud- 
ed valliz, amid rugged hilz— with her and flier 
a clerd erea, a smol hut for a liens and sum 
sewelid ent-bildigz, — wifli banditti or ruf lucig 
pepul az tenants gv the turf and proulerz gv 
flie wud/,. Az he vvez pasig, he inewird sev- 
eral tlmz h wether ther wez a tavern ner bT. 
He woz told that die onli tavern on the rout, 
for a leg we, wez at si/ch a pies ; that it wez 
the onli pies at hwidh wun cud find ledjigz for 
meni milz around. Az the de wgz far spent 
hwen he arrivd at die pies, he inewird gv die 
landlord h wether he wud ledj him and hiz hors 
over nit. He wgz informd that he wild. Tlier- 
upen, he dismounted, gev hiz hors tu a man 
ho led him tu a rod stebul, med a jenerai 
surve gv hiz envlrenz and then enterd the tav- 
ern. The tavern woz hilt ov legz — gud, sub- 
stanslbal and cumfurtahul. It consisted gv 

for runiz; tu— die bar-rum and cidhen on 

the first flor, and tu bedrumz — a Iarj and a 
smol wun, up sterz. T he furnitgr wgz spars 
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yutensilz wer clsn, and sumfhig ev thrift ssmd 
tu emanat from everithig about the establish- 
ment; and the landlord and landladi ssmd 
veri accommodatig. But timr woz, in everi 
fas, sum thi rj rather brigandish. Besldz, for a 
bl plas, he thot her woz an unyuzhqal num- 
ber ©v thoz hm merli cam and went — for no 
pur pus, az far az he cud se, — not even so 
much az tu get a glas ©v grog. Ther wer 
nun drugc, and ther wer nun drigcig. 

Erli in the svenig, supper woz prspard, and 
az hs woz the onli gest, he, with the host and 
hostes, sat doun tu sup. Thigz wer plentiful, 
clsn and invltig, and hs at hart il i . But hwll 
stig ther cam in wun hiaz fas hs had sen so far 
bac alog the wa that hs bfegan tu reflect that 
that fello woz a littul wa from bom. IIs rec- 
©gnizd him az the fello ov lnatn hs mad hiz 
first incwlri for a tavern. Ths fello sed nufh- 
ig tu him, and hs sed nufhig tu ths fello — and 
hs sun disapperd. But ar log, hs notist 
anuther fello ov hum hs had incwlrd for a 
tavern; and then a third. But nun ov them 
stad around and nun ov them ssmd tu intrud, 
obtrud or be over curtsus. Ths notisabul part 
woz, ths brigandislh fiziognomi, thar appsrans 
and thar cwic disappsrans. Q1 wer cwiet and 
orderli. 

Az hs had bin several daz upon hiz jurni, 


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wez wsri and wisdit tu arlz erli the foil oir) 
mornip, hs ©rderd an erli brecfast and asct tu 
rstlr. Hs woz sfhon into die smoler ©v das tu 
bedrumz — in hwidh woz a cumfurtabul bed, 
wun dhar and a smol stand. The dor woz 
provided with a bar, that wurct purli, — and 
mad a veri insscpr fasenip. But, with a 1 i t tu 1 
ecstemporlzip, this woz mad, hs thot, tolerabli 
saf. 

Tbs amount ©v eandul tha had given him 
woz smol; and hs notist several uther fhipz 
diat hs thot wer ©minus. But hs trld tu mac 
himself bslsv that ol thsz diipz had happend 
bscoz ov ths rud, bac-wudz custumz ov ths 
pspul amup hum hs woz stoppip, and that dia 
wer indsd clever felloz. 

Ths fatsg ov ths lop lid sun gav wa tu slsp ; 
but not far from midnit ther wer sum fnt- 
steps — fantand mezhprd, — -just snuf tu disturb 
hiz rspoz. Then hwisperip woz herd — but ths 
subject matter about hwidh dm hwisperd hs 
did not no. Tha wer in ths adjoinip rum; 
and ssmd tu bs discusip a plot, and hs bsgan 
tu surmiz that hs had folen intu ths handz ©v 
robberz, and that hs had better prspar for ac- 
s J hun. Accordipli, hs felt tu ss hwether hiz 
pistolz, hwip, &c., wer Invar hs had put them 
hwen rstlrip; hwen hs found, that tha wer, and 
that thipz wer az handi for him az tha cud bs, 


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bs tiroz cwletli, felt tu se that tbs bar acres 
tbs dor W9Z az bs bad arrenjd it, drest himself 
and aweted dsvelopments. IIs had no lit — hp- 
sifer madhez wer net jet in vo g, and a candid 
end net bs llted at wil. So, bs sat cwletli in 
tbs dare, — but net 1 eg, without a littul verlsti. 
Suddenli sumwun mad a surj agenst tbs dor 
az wun wild tu burst it open. But tbs dor 
bar did gud servis and tbs dor stad elozd. 
Deutles tba nsu that it wez bard bsfor bs 
a woe, — and bad concluded that tha mlt az wel 
prossd tu biznes — bl fors. Qgen sumwun’z 
wat cam agenst tbs dor — if pessibul sumbvvet 
harder than bsfor; but tbs dor did net open. 
Then wun cold tu him, — sscirj entrans under 
prstecst that tha bad mor gests than cud bs 
accommodated and tlia vvisbt tu put an ad- 
disbunal ledjer in bis rum with him. Tu this 
hs rsplld: “Wun iz snuf in this rum.” Then 
tii a dsmanded entrans; but bs sternli stated 
that huever cam in that rum bsfor dallt wez a 
smarter man than bs. 

This brot fhirjz tu a poz for a moment. It 
ssmd tu bs a tliig unecspected tu them. II iz 
culnes and dsliberasbun no dent, wornd them 
that hs wez armd, wez redi and wez awetir) a 
fsrs onset — and wud fit tu despereshun. No 
deut that tba so diat huever opend that dor, 
get tbs first bullet, and that if bs wez wun ev 


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thoz trend old felloz, — ynzd tu fensig and tu 
fit ir), a haf-duzen ev diem end szi be cild be for 
eniwim ov them end get thru die dor far enuf 
tn grappul with him. 

Q cenferens, log and sumhwet spirited, bat 
in a lo ton ov vois, woz herd amug the brig- 
andz. Then follod sllens — for a leg liwll — aft- 
erward, in a hwisper, a fen wurdz wer past, 
and fut-steps, fentli folig announst that the 
wer az cwletli az possibli levig die dor, and die 
adjeinig rum and desendig the sterz. 

In redines for a con diet, if an onset sdmd 
folio, he remend until a littul be for suniiz, 
hwen he woz cold tn breefast. Ilerupon, he 
opend the dor, stept thru it intu the adjoinig 
rum, served it closli, desended the sterz, 
wosfht and sat doun tu breefast. The onli 
person that he so about the hens woz the ledi 
hu servd him at the tebul and hu elemd tu be 
the hostes. Upon incwlrig ov her censernig 
the hwera bouts ov the landlord, sfhe steted that 
he had biznes widi sum |)artiz livig several 
mllz awe and that he had arizen at an erli our 
and started upon a jurni tu met die sed partiz, 
and dial he wild be bac prezentli. Upon in- 
cwlrig ov her censernig the disturbans in the 
heus, dgrig the nit, slhe replld diat sfhe had herd 
no disturbans dgrig the nit, and that sthe thot 
dier had bin nun. But in mecig the stetment, 


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her spscfh wez unstedi, and her ceuntsnans 
disclozd that, at this inevvTri, slhs wez il at sz. 
Az he cud net se that enithig end bs gend bl 
pusfhig hiz incwlri, hs settuld hiz bil for the 
accernmodeshun die had renderd him at ths 
lieus, mounted hiz hors and departed, — “mad,” 
tu yuz hiz on laggwej, “that d had net had a 
dhans tu cil wun or to ev ths damd rascalz.” 

Ths neest nit, at ths pies at liwidli hs stept, 
wer several droverz. Ths lieus wez eemmo- 
dios and diigz fer. Be for rstlriij, die droverz 
had toct tugedier veri mudh abeut ther biznes 
and had get pritti wel acewented. Sum wun 
ev them mensfhund an insident that had folen 
tu him sins hs left horn. Id wen hs had told 
hiz stori, Andru Larisun told hwet bsfel him 
en ths prsssdig nit. Therupen wun ev dis 
parti sed : “Wel, frem yur dsscripsfhun ev 
thigz, yu cein that bl rod, thru die hilz and 
meuntinz and yu stept at that pies that iz cold 
ths ‘droverz’ trap.’ And ther ar fsu hu hav 
ever stept (her hu hav get awe with ther 
muni, and meni hav bin cild ther, and ther 
bediz so ssciirli sscrsted that the hav never 
bin found. Qbeut a munfh ago, a drover wez 
non tu ste[) at that lieus, but hs haz net bin 
herd frem sins; abeut a ysr ago, wun stept at 
that lieus, az everibedi diigcs, and no wun noz 
hwet haz bscum ev him. Thoz droverz and 


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u ther men with muni liia no hen fhigz ar, s f hun 
that rod az mudh az tlia can, never alien them- 
selvz tu be benlted liwll pasig over, and never 
put up at eni lions alog it. Ther iz but wun 
Tavern on it, — the wun at hwidh yu stopt — 
and that iz the hed-cworterz ov a gang ov rob- 
berz, ho hav roi)d and murderd meni a man. 
Mucdi haz bin dun tu bree it up, but ol haz 
bin ineffectual Ther semz tu be no we tu 
catcdi them. In the de-tlm and in tiie eveniij the 
lions semz tu be in.plezant order; but he ho 
stops over nit, if he pruvz tu be an ezi victim — 
cumz out the necst mornig with no muni; if 
he iz not an ezi victim, he duz not cum out at 
ol. And boil yu ever got out with yur Ilf and 
yur muni I do not no.” 

Audi o Larisun woz a veri bizi man. He 
cud not be Idul. He woz olvvez doig sumfhig, 
or projectig sum improvment. Unles redig 
or litig, or conversig, he woz ever on the mov, 
pesig tlie Hor, dansig or at sum athletic sports. 
But at hwotever he woz emploid, hiz movz 
wer olvvez ewie and yet grusful. I wuns herd 
a fizisfhan se ov him: ‘‘Az I yuzd tu luc at 
him, I yuzd tu w under h wether he cud be stil 
hwen he woz plcst in hiz grev. He woz the 
most restles mortal I ever so. He woz olwaz 
doig sumthig, and no matter hou tacsig hiz 
wurc woz, he semd tu never tlr.” 


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Andru Larisun woz a noted jocer; but, 
with biz joes hs woz earful that hs did not 
offend. An offensiv joe, a slur, a cuttig jest, 
or an ingendo hs ineffabli despTzd. Hs never 
laft a£ a man, but woz ever wilig tu laf with a 
man. Hens, hiz conversasfhun woz ever ss- 
zund with the elements ov gnd yiainur and plez- 
antriz, and hwen bs sat deun tu toe, ther assem- 
buld around him az meni az end her hiz vois. 
Nor did a member ov ths grup lev until hiz toe 
woz dun, and hs woz upon hiz fst tu go — so 
fassinatig woz hs az a conversashunalist. 

$ hav sen him driv up tu a hotel, or tu a 
stor, and be for hs cud dismount from hiz sulci, 
hitefh hiz hors tu a post and get into ths hous, 
the wud cum from everi hwidh wa tu salgt him, 
and az hs prossded, the follod him hwither hs 
went, az if tu catcfh everi wurd hs utterd, and 
tu ss everi mov hs mad. Ths jolli ecspected 
tu witnes sum fun, ths wiced tu her sum co- 
sfhun, ths grav tu hsr sum wlz counsil, the eult- 
grd tu hsr sum polisfht laggwcj, ths brilyant 
sum sintillaslhunz ov wit, or gusfhez ov yiamur, 
ths ssdat sum sound filosofi. Nor wer thoz hia 
lisend tu him porli pad for thar panz. Ths 
mor tha herd ths moi- tha wonted tu hsr; and 
ths ofener tha met him die mor sger tha wer tu 
met him agen. 

Hwll tocig, hs olwaz cept hiz fas fulli in vsu 


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@ v thoz bum hs addrest; and in biz conntenans 
W9Z red everi emoshun He vnzhualli sat with 
biz truijc and bed erect, and tboracs projected. 
Hiz bandz, eesept bvven yuzd in jesticuletig, 
wer ynziialli restip upon biz tliTz in sudh a we 
that biz figgerz wer upon the inner aspect ©v 
hiz tliTz, bwll biz fhumz wer upon the enter as- 
pect. This set biz elboz aeimbo, lifted biz 
armz from biz bodi, parshalli lifted biz sdiolderz 
from the ffioraes, gev biz tbrot fredum tn act, 
fa si lit e tod a fre and ezi brethig, a pip*, cler, en- 
fenic articplesHiun, and a grasful, ernest and 
dignitld attitud. Hwen about tn utter sum- 
thip that be ffiot espesfaalli important, or a lit- 
tul witti, he invariabli vn-crost biz legz, plest 
biz fet firmli but gresfnlli upon the flor, shuvd 
hiz bandz a litt.ul closer tn biz nez and turnd 
hiz fas a littul mor upward. H wether tins at- 
titud woz the rezult ov studi J cannot affirm. 
But so stricip woz it, so ynniversalli sen and 
so jeneralli admlrd bl ol lua neu him that bav 
rerli herd a persun toe about him, or about biz 
peculiarity that did not spec ov this attitud az 
a strlcir) pecubariti and wun ov the dharrnz 
that never fold tu win the estem ov a stranjer. 

Az be spoc, biz ‘wurdz hwidh wer olwaz wel 
dhozen, cler and enfonic, wer corroborated In 
biz ever ecspresiv, ezili red, and never folsifiip 
countenans. Tn clerli understand him woz ezi; 


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and so far from die practis ov desepsfhun wgz 
he, that biz frarjcnes, pip-iti ev purpus, and 
opennes ev deportment wer proverbial. Mr. 
A. T. Wilyamsun, wun ov biz ardent admir- 
erz, and wun liu lerj neu him and transacted 
niudh biznes with him, baz ofen remarct : 
“ Andria Larisun wgz the freest from desepsfhun 
gv ol men that I ever nen: tber wgz absolqtli 
no desepsfliun in him ” Substaoptfhalli the sam 
remarc I hav ofen herd mad bl the Rev. Jacob 
Circpatric, D. D., On. Jon Blau, M. D., On. 
Samuel Lilli, M. D., and meni utberz. 

In biz da, stori telirj, bwidh I am happi tu 
sa iz littul practist eni mor, wgz fasfhunabul; 
and, in die art, be wgz veri aecomplisfht and 
far-fcmd. Tu diis, az tn conversasfhun and 
public specir), he applid, bvven cngejd at it, ol 
biz pouerz gv retoric and elociishun; and widi, 
if possibul, mor effectual rezults. I don’t no 
that be wgz ever censiderd the best gv die stori- 
telerz; but it haz bin a cGinniGU oecurrens 
that stranjerz lua met me and lu.i trld tu clam 
rezunz for an accwantans with me becoz tba 
nen ml grandfather, lmv stated that tba bad 
bodi danst with ml grandfather and herd him 
tel storiz. And, an old drover, Cwiczel bl 
nam, (lua bi the wa wgz a cotemporari and 
olmost az famus az a drover az Andru Lari- 
sun himself) yuzd tu tel me that be cud olwaz 


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tel hwether Larisun bad evervizited tbs locali- 
ti in liwidh be wez cellectii] biz stec, bi the 
prezens or absens ev dig storiz hg wez accus- 
t irmd tu tel. “For,” bs sed, “Larisun never 
went into a localiti in liwidh bg did net tel 
sum ev hiz storiz, and bg olwez told a stori 
with sudh fors, and with sudh zest, that no 
wun cud forget it, and no wun cud fel tu tel 
it az bg told it. 

In stori teliij, bg sertinli tuc dglit, and med 
it a mgnz bi liwidh bg cud hwil awe a dgl ev 
tlm diat utherwiz, in biz vocesfhun az a drover, 
wud bav hup bevi. And, $ bav herd him se 
that stori telii) had efen lesend tbg denjer with 
liwidh hg wez surrounded, bwen cellectir) drovz 
in plesez frgcvvented bi banditti. Wun ecee- 
zbun espeslialli bg mensfhund tu mg (az a clnd 
ev justificesfhun ev a practis diat bg evidentli 
thot I did net appruv) that I wel rgmember; 
and I wel rgmember dig ernestnes widi liwidh 
bg rgleted it. It sgmz bg bad put up for tbg 
nit, at a leg hotel, in a sparsli settuld district 
bgtwen dig Sengca and Ceyuga Lees, in tbg 
stet ev Ngu Yore — a rgjun diat wez dien stild 
a up cuntri, and veri seldumli vizited bi drov- 
erz or eni wun els hu carrid mudh muni. It 
abeunded in gud sligp, liwidh hg bad bin told 
cud bg bot at veri lo figqrz — to sThilligz and sics 
pens per bed. Hg had sted dig nit prior at Ith- 


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ica, nsi* tli s bed ov Cayuga Lae; bad started erli 
in tbe mornir) and piisht biz wa az far up intu 
tbs mi cuntri az tbs depth ev tbs da (in Jvpi) 
and tbs cendisbunz ev tbs rodz wild let bim. 
Hs W9Z tlrd ov tbs saddul, and biz burs woz 
jaded with hst and bad i*odz, but. cen timid tn 
travel until ©imost nlt-fol. Tbs log lions bvvidh 
vvoz ynzd az a tavern bad tu rumz upon the 
first fior, tbs cidlien and tbs bar rum, — bon 
meni rumz ther vver upon tbs second flor hs sed 
hs never nsu. Tber woz furnitiir snuf, snuf tn 
st, and a plenti tu dripc; everifhir) ssmd clsn; 
ol wer clever — tbs landlord espesballi so. Sup- 
per cam in dii tun, and ar it woz over, it ssmd 
tu bim, that tber vver mor foes around than bs 
fliot cud bs lsjitimat gests at that in; and then 
tba ssmd so sosbal — and so helpful and so fa- 
milyar. IIs sun so, az bs frazd it, that ther Iz 
1 net az if tba badol bin mad in tbs sam shop, — 
and wer egzactli ov that pattern found in tbs 
inmats ov tbs Stat Prizun. Hiz lop bwip and 
biz method ov travelii) told wel snuf bvvot biz 
biznes woz, without eni statment from him. 
And rlt awa tba began tu offer tu help bim 
bunt shsp, and tu incwlr az tu tbs number bs 
wi^ht tu bl, and tbs sit, at bvvidh bs propozd tu 
collect biz drov, and b wether bs bad a partner, 
&c., &c. ©v cors, ol nsu b war tber vver a plen- 
ti ov shsp — and sdh wun nsu that tbs dhsp that 


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he had in veu wer die best and that die cud be 
bot for the lest muni, — and ol that woz neses- 
seri tu hav the sfhep brot «tu the tavern erli in 
the morn'ii], or the drover escorted tu die pies 
at hwidh he cud se die shep and bl them at hiz 
on piis, W 0 Z a littul redi muni. Importipiiti 
and impgdens semd consummet and hiz sitge- 
sdiun not onli uncumfurtabul but desTdedli crit- 
ical. Herupen, tu illustret the felisiti ov hiz 
sitgesfhun arnug so gud and so jenerus a set ov 
felloz and hiz nosfhun ov them and die vain he 
plest upon ther servisez dgrig the morro and 
die dez subsec went, he told wun ov liwot he 
stlld hiz storiz. Hiz cialnes, yumur, and zest 
in telig the stori, mor perhaps than the matter 
ov the stori itself, attracted ther attensfhun; 
and after a gud liarti laf, wun ov dier number 
az a set-of agenst the stori die had just herd, 
began a yarn that he diot sfhmrli woz madhles. 
0v cors it woz follod bl a liarti laf, and ov ol, 
die old drover la ft the hardest, tu be sduar. 
But, er reacshun cent fulli on, die drover began 
a rejoinder that plenli shu that the lna madht 
him must cum forward, not onli with ther best 
telz, but with ecscwizit abiliti tu tel them. 
Hwen the stori woz ended, and the laf that fol- 
lod woz subsldig, die landlord, eded bl sum ov 
the rog-id memberz ov the parti, began a sis- 
tem ov mangverz tu stop die stori telig and 


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get the drover of tu bed. But, the drover did 
net intend tu go tu bed — and tu sho up hiz 
disinclinashun tu go tu bed, and hiz inten- 
sion tu out-du eni in that croud in telig storiz, 
he began a m\ yarn hwidh he thot (and ©1 the 
rest it semz thot,) woz veri mudh tu the point, 
and hwidh woz follod b! a veri harti laf — in 
hwidh sherd both the landlord and hiz wlf. 

0v cors, everi wun hu had ever told a stori 
wonted an opportipiiti tu put in hiz part; and 
everi wun hu had a test for herig storiz told, 
wonted tu her ol that wer releted. So, tu pro- 
voc another tel from the drover, won ov the par- 
ti began a yarn hwich woz intended tu be a 
burlesc upon the droverz in jeneral. — It pruvd 
tu be a gud won, and sifted tu provoc from 
the old drover, won ov the best that he carrid. 
But, befor he had hardli begun tu tel hiz re- 
joinder, the landlord orjd that it woz bedtlm, 
that he wisht tu cloz the hous and retlr, and 
that the strenjer (the drover) sertinli woz tlrd 
with travel and neded tu retlr. Heropon, the 
drover polltli announst that he woz not tlrd, 
that he woz glad that lie had stopt at a hous 
at hwidh convend so meni wits, and so meni 
conjenyal felloz ; and that he woz goig tu be 
bizi the folloig da in the neburhud lucig op 
shep; and that az it mlt not be possibol for 
sum ov the best stori-telerz ov the croud tu be 


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prezent the felloig nit tu favur him with ther 
cumpani, hs woz goig tu U put in hiztim” that 
nit, in ecsdhanjig yarnz with them; and that 
hs had sn uf firs t-clas storiz on band (“in soc,” 
az hs frezd it) tu consign ths tlm ov several 
nits; and if eni in tlis parti had eni accwent- 
ansez liu wer espesfhalli gud at yarnig, hs 
hopt the wud invTt them tu hs prezent ths fal- 
ling nit; — that if ths landlord wisfht tu eloz ths 
Iigus, — az ths nit wez oiredi far spent (then 
about 1 o’cloc A. M.) and ths ar woz plezant, 
tha wud sit out under a hgj, oc trs tliat stud a 
fsu pasez from ths lions; — that it wud bs mor 
plezant in ths open er than in ths hous; and 
that hs woz cwit yuzd tu duig so. Qrlzig tu 
go out tu ths trs, hs so that hiz muvment woz 
not ecspected, and that ths landlord, and a fsu 
that wer co-eperatig with him, wer disappoint- 
ed, and wer inclind tu huddul tugether. Az 
hs prossded tu ths trs, a fsu ov ths best laferz 
in ths parti, and sum that had told storiz, fel- 
lod. The had no dharz. Ths drover sat upon 
a smol stump; sum sat upon stonz, utherz 
upon blocs, utherz upon logz, utherz upon ths 
ground. Hs bsgan hiz rejoinder, sloli, dslib- 
eratli, and with hiz best effort, and med it last 
az log az hs cud — ths hwil fhigcig ov ths plot 
that ths landlord and hiz banditti mit bs ds- 
vizig tu cup him, nec him deun, nlf him or 


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shut him, az the mlt fhipc the most fezabul 
we tu get acses tu hiz pocet. The stori pro- 
voct a laf — louder than eni wun had befor; 
and the novelti ov beip out in the wudz, past 
midnit, tel ip storiz, and the increst sound that 
the wudz gev tu ther lafter, conspird tu stim- 
plet thoz that wer with him tu ste with him 
and tu put forth ther best efforts, az wel az tu 
wore upon the cpriositi ov sudh ov thoz in' the 
hous az wer les intent upon robberi; and tu in- 
dps them tu join the parti under thetre tu sher 
the sport that woz rlf ther. 

The laf woz hardli over, hwen hiz replicant 
began a repliceshun that had merit, entertend 
tlie parti wel, and provoct a reuzip laf. ~No 
tlm woz lost. Q rejoinder cwicli follod, enter- 
tenip and effectual in bripip doun overhwelmip 
lafter. But, at this jupctpr, sum from the 
tavern cem, and began an attempt tu rez a 
rou — doutles with the intenshun ov captprip 
the drover or hiz effects, dprip the progres ov 
the afire. The attempt pruvd abortiv. The 
drover bl this tlm had so wurct hiz we into 
the harts ov thoz hia wer innosent, or lna wer 
les intent upon robberi, that the pasifld the 
rufer wunz, and indpst them tu her just wun 
stori from the old drover. Herupon he select- 
ed wun that he fhot spted tu the occezhun. 
It describd an attempt sum ruf-necs wuns 


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med ]t.u disturb a Methodist Olas-metig. It 
pruvd tu bs a “hit,” a “tec doun,” and even 
die banditti themselvz joind in die laf and the 
croud med die welcin rig with dier mirthful 
voisez. 

Hiz replicant, az sun az he recuverd from 
hiz convulshunz ev latter, wlpig die swet from 
hiz fes with a larj cors handcerdhif, began 
anuther repliceshun, hwidh in d\\ tlm, after die 
manner ov stori-telig, hwen practist accordig 
tu the best prinsipulz ev the art, brut a telig 
rejoinder. 

So laf follod stori, and stori follod laf, until 
die don, hwidh, tu Andru Larisun, cem mor 
welcum that de than it ever had befor. The 
brigandz, at die don, wer net widi him; sfhe- 
grind that ther planz had bin frustrated, the 
left the parti under the tre and returnd tu the 
landlord, sun after herig the stori that woz re- 
leted for ther espesfhal benefit. The stori 
pruvd tu be a sever rebgc tu them hu cem in 
ther wicednes, tu disturb the plus grup hu 
wer assembuld under the tre, servig, in ol 
innosensi, ther Master the best the lieu hou. 

At don, the parti under the tre began tu 
dispers. Sum went tu ther homz, utherz tu 
ther wurc — but ol went with an avouel that 
the had had a jolli gud tlm that nit, and wer 
cumig bac in the evenig. The col tu brecfast 


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fellod in d\\ tun. Ecseptig tiis drover, ths land- 
ledi and ths landlord, ther wer nun tu st. No 
wun asct ths old drover tu asc a biesig, (or az 
the yuzd tu se, tu se gres) at ths tebul; so 
the et without serimoni, and with veri littul 
cenversesfhun Ecseptig ths landlord, ther woz 
net a frs-biiter 1o be ssn — not a man about. 
Ths drover ped hiz bil for hiz supper, hiz 
brecfast, hiz hors-fsd and ths privilej ov telig 
storiz ol nit, sadduld and mounted hiz hors, 
and, az ewletli az hs cud, hunted cworterz that 
hs hopt wild bs a littul mor cenjsnyal tu hiz 
helth, and wud afford a littul mor sefti tu hiz 
purs. 

Subsscwentli hs vizi ted this neburhud, with 
a cuzin, Thsodorus Larisun, upon ths errand 
ov collect ig a drov. The slept at a farm-heus 
hwll gatherig ths shsp. Hwll travelig hsr and 
ther, from farm tu farm, and from gled tu 
gled, hs met a fello upon ths rod lna saluted 
him with a beu, and an uplifted hand. Ths 
drovers stept tu lern hwot ths strenjer had tu 
se. Hwerupen ths strenjer sed : thigc I 

hav ssn yu bsfor; iz not yur nem Andru Lar- 
isun? and did yu not ste wun nit about a ysr 
ago sum twenti milz north ov this pies at a 
log tavern bilt nsr ths big wudz?” Tu this 
ths drover replid: u Yes, $ did.” “Wei,” sed 
ths strenjer, “Jj woz wun ov dis felloz hia sat 


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with yu, ©1 nit, under that big trs tu her yn tel 
storiz. “Yu gev us a gnd entertenment that 
nit, the best 1 hav ever had — but yu littul neu 
heu ner hel yu wer that nit, and hwet that 
band ev devilz in the heus wer plannig for yu. 
The intended that yu sfhud never get out ev 
that pies with muni or saddul-bag. But yur 
wit and yur storiz pruvd tu be tia mudh for 
sum ev the wecer wunz in the parti, and yur 
manner wgz so fassinetig diat sum gv the in- 
nosent wunz; — sum hia neu nuthig abeut the 
wurcigz ev the devilz, — cept so clox tu yu that 
nuthig cud be dun bl the hel-heundz without 
incurrig the denjer ev eespozhur. But, had 
it net bin that yur laggwej implld that yu in- 
tended tu be at that pies die felloig nit, yu 
wud never hav cum out ev that hel with a sent 
gv yur muni; — damd fortune t wud yu hav 
bin if yu cem out allv. Muui iz seers up 
(her, and the never let a strenjer go awe with 
eni.” 

Drover . “And then yu wer wun gv that 
parti wer yu?” 

Stranjer . “Yes, IE wgz.” 

Drover . “And yu neu liwet wgz goig on 
(hen? And that (he wer dcsig tu rob me, e?” 

Str&njer . “Yes; IE neu hwet wgz goig on 
(her; IE neu hwet wgz olvvez goig on ther hwen 
a man hu had muni stept at that heus.” 


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Drover . “Wei! hwot wer yu duig ther? 
helpig alog with the wurc?” 

Strznjer. “AVel! i am a wudz-man — a 
timber-man — and wurc in the wudz; and last 
summer 31 vvez in that neburhud d. leg hwll, and 
3i yuzd tu go nits, with the rest ov the men tu 
that tavern, tu get grog, tu ss ths sits and tu 
hav fun. ©v coi*s, 3? neu hwot the wer up tu 
ther.” 

Drover. “Wer yu not afred tu go amug 
sudh felloz?” 

Stranjer. “O no! 3) had nufhig tu mec ms 
fsr; 1 had no muni; ws spent our muni azfast 
az ws ernd it, and sumtlmz suner. The won’t 
hurt eni bodi bu baz no muni; but ther iz a 
set around that tavern hta never let a man go 
awe with muni, and the wer olwez serri that 
the let yu go. S herd ths matter toct over mor 
than wuns. But with yur joes yu oomplstli 
got abed ov them. — Wei! hwar ar yu stoppig 
neu? $ wud lie tu hsryu tel storiz agen; and 
then ^ fhige yu ar a littul indeted tu ms, — at 
ths lsst, a trst or tu.” 

Tbs drover told him at hwot tavern, in ths 
naburhud, bs wud mst him ths felloig de, and 
that hs wud bs glad tu drige with him; that 
hs woz veri gretful tu ol thoz felloz hu cept 
hiz cumpani under (hs trs that nit, and that hs 
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with ©1 ev them; that hs so sun after supper 
that he had stopt for ths nit in a gag ev frs- 
buters, and that hs had tecen up stori-telig 
for the nit az the onli msnz ©v sefti ; that hs 
had never, befor or sins, egzerted hiz enerjiz 
so mudh in telirj storiz tu mec it effectual, nor 
had the art ever bsfor, or sins, bin so profita- 
bul tu him, — az it had bin, that nit, ths msnz 
©v helpig him tu go out from that den with 
about txa fheuzand flv hundred d©llarz in hiz 
])©cet. 

But, grandfather ©fen told storiz — o l ml — 
hwen hs had no fsr ©v robberz. 1 hav herd 
hiz sun, J©n, sa that hs had' ©fen g©n tu bed, 
let at nit, lsviij hiz fa ther with sum uther 
droverz, or with sum ecsperts at yarn-spinnig, 
telig storiz and lafig az if the had never had 
eni fun bsfor; and, in ths mornig hwen hs 
aroz, h s found hiz fattier stil sitig with ths rest 
©v ths parti with hum hs left him telig storiz 
with az mudh zest az if the had just bsgun 
ther talz, and az mudh harti lafter az if the 
had never herd a stori told bsfor. 

Indsd, ths art hs luvd and studid; and thru 
ths practis ©v it dhsfli, no dout, hs attend tu 
that tin command ©v ters, dh©is, sufenie, 
swasiv, winnig spsdh that woz, bl no msnz, 
wun ©v ths lsst ©v ths fhigz that grest him. 





































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CHAPTER II 

TH8 HISTORI 0V ANDEU LARISUN. 

Andria Larisun, sun av Andru Larisun and 
La vlna Severnz, wez born Me 17th, 1776, in 
the Tannsfhip ov Delawer, Ceunti av Hunter- 
dan, Stet av Neu Jerzi, — up©n a farm abant a 
mil and a haf north-west av Maunteri. Upon 
this farm hs rsmend until he waz abant etsn 
ysrz old, — the ej at hwidh hs \v©z apprentist tu 
Brittain tu lern the biznes 0 v stor-cepig. 

Hvvll at horn hs ssmz tu hav bin ceptat studi 
menli under ths direcsliunz ev hiz fattier hu 
had a soul bans upan hiz farm and in it, assist- 
ed b! hiz wlf, can ducted a scul. Han apt hs 
wez az a stqdent J hav no msnz ov noig, but 
sertin it iz ttiat in hiz cors ov Ilf hs amast an 
arnezig stor av ynsfnl nalej and waz wunder- 
fulli deestrus in appllig it. 

At wun tlm, hs waz a Seul-Tsdher. So waz 
hiz fattier and so waz hiz grandfather. But av 
hiz eespsriens az a tsdlier hs ssmd tu hav but 
littul tu se. Ths onli tlm that hs mensliund tu 
ms ths fact that hs had bin a Scul-Tscher, waz 


Gil ail eccazhun that he wez tiiii) tu lern from 
me hvvot ml coi s ev lif wez licli tu be. Az I 
wez diffident in repliig tu hiz cwestyunz he 
sed: “Shurliyu du net intend tu tedh scul ol 
yur daz ; that vvil du t u begin lif with, or tu 
bridj over a slaenes ev biznes in the winter, or 
serv az a chid ev mac-shift hwll wun iz watir) 
for, or preparig for surnthir) better. But that 
wil net du for a llf-wurc for yu — ther iz net 
en uf in it — it duz net afford scop enuf for a 
man ev enerji. I vvuns tot scul and llct it — 
and lernd mudh bl tedhii) utherz; but ther wez 
net scop enuf in it for me, — and the pa wez tu 
pur; and so it wil be for yu liwen yu get tu 
be a littul older. Tu be a fin scelar izveri de- 
zlrabul — mi father and mi grandfather wer, 
and tha olwaz prided Ihemselvz in thar lernir) 
and in ther librariz ; and I wez brot up, frem 
mi infansi, tu bncs, and ol mi brutherz and 
sisterz wer; — and mi sister Salli tot scul ler) 
after she wez marrid, and helpt man tan her 
famili bi tedhiiy It iz realli the Laris un ev it 
tu luv hues, tu be a redi liter and tu tedh scul. 
I wez brot up bi mi father, tu survaip, and tu 
the formz ev ritig dedz, wilz, bendz, morgejez 
and the lie, and in the art ev public specip; and 
I becam veri redi at ol thez fhigz : tha wer roc- 
end accomplishments hwen I wez yup, and I 
hav olwaz delited in them. Inded I hav olwaz 


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fhot that the man lua cannot red vvel and rlt wel 
iz a pur devil. Me iz but a bundul ev igno- 
rans and siiperstisfaun, never noz hwot ther iz 
tu be enjoid ; and, az a rial, becumz a &lav tu 
biz appetits and a di]p tu demagogz — politi- 
sfhunz and dominiz. Sudh men ar tu be pitid!” 

Az biz sunz hav no remembrans ovhiz tedh- 
irj, $ suppoz that be acted az a Tedher onli hwll 
he wozyug — perhaps about the tun be woz mar- 
rid, or sun after that period. Ther ar several 
fhig that led me tu fhigc that he never lot until 
he settuld on the farm ner Frendhtoun and 
that he tot in biz on lions on that farm dijriij 
the first feu winterz that lie livd thar. 

At an erli ej, about 18 yerz 1 fhigc, he woz 
bound tu serv an apprentissfhip tu a man cold 
Brittain, hu at that tlm cept stoi* at Baptis- 
toun. Hiz apprentissfhip, accordig tu the in- 
dentgr, ecsplrd hvven he woz twenti wun yerz 
old. So wel plezd with hiz apprentis woz hiz 
emploier, that befor he at land hiz majoriti, he 
woz tacen into cenfidens bl hiz em])loier, and 
becam a partner with liim in stor-cepig. 

At that tlm Baptist eun woz, az it stil iz, a 
veri smol villej; but, at that tlm, it woz a not- 
ed biznes senter, and therat woz handuld mudh 
merdhandiz. 

Az ther wer nether canalz nor ralrodz at 
that tim, in this part ©v Nsu Jerzi, eni senter 


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in a cultivated distiict from hvvich diverjd 
gud rodz, mlt becum a marcet, provided onli 
tlier happend in it a man with the recwizit ees- 
periens, a biznes capasiti, and enuf capital. 
Hens ther sprug up in ear counti in erli 
daz, Hedeworterz, Riggoz, Mountari, Prolzvil, 
Baptisteun and a number gv utherz that IE mlt 
menshun, ov grat importans, in thoz dez, az 
biznes senterz. Herat wer bot the prodijs gv 
the surroundig cuntri, — gran, fruit, pore, bevz, 
poltri, potatoz, tiacs and hwGtever els the fhrifti 
pepul gv Giir cuntri in erli daz cultivated, or 
gatherd from spent eneus grofh. From thez 
senterz ol the prodgs bot must be carted tu 
Filadelfia or Neu Yore, in wagonz, or els tu 
sum points upon the bage gv the Delawar, or 
die Raritan River, at lnvidh it cud be plast on 
bord Durham hots, and bl menz gv them 
transported tu the abuv namd sitiz, — hwidh, 
in thoz daz, wer the hed marcets ov our land. 

This method ov transportesfhun mad temig 
a biznes, and everi merchant, at a grat ecs- 
pens, woz compel d tu emplei meni temz. Tu 
be shur, ther wer a feu sits upon the bages ov 
the Delawar at hwidh prodgs woz bot, and 
from hwidh it woz shipt, in lots, directli tu 
Filadelfia, at littul cost az compard tu the ecs- 
pens ov temz and wagonz. Sudh wer Prlm- 
liop, abuv Wel’z Folz, Prolzvil and Milford. 


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Thez, ev cors, wer plesez at hwidh men witii 
gud biznes cwelitiz sun becem ridh — beeoz ev 
the dhepnes ev transport ig the cemmeditiz in 
hwidh the delt. 

At this tlm, Lambertvil, Stecten and Frendh- 
teun had net begun tu be; at diez plesez ther 
wer yet net even bot landigz or rodz that led 
deun tu the woter ev the river. But the en- 
terprlz ev Andru Larisun sun opend up a we 
tu get die prodgs bot at Baptisteun tu the 
nerest peint en the bagc ev the Delawer at 
hwidh hots cud land. Bl a littul ecspenditgr 
he wurct a we thru die raven hwidh openz eut 
intu the plen ev the Delawer ner the sit upen 
hwidh French teun neu stand z. This we haz 
sins becum the rod frem Baptisteun tu Frendh- 
teun. Ther wez then but feu heuzez upen the 
sit hwidh we neu col Frendhteun, Q1 wez a 
dens ferest, ev hgj ocs, mepulz and hicoriz, 
ond bl a Swis-Frendhman hum die cold Pol 
Henri Mallet Prevost, hu ond nerli a theuzand 
ecerz ev land ther, upen hwidh ther wez a 
grist mil and a so mil. 

Prevo (Prevost) wez ridh, enterprlzig and 
sfhrud, and invited eni preject that mlt develop, 
at that pies, a lin ev biznes. Andru Larisun’z 
preject met hiz appruval, and he did hwet he 
cud tu encurej him in hiz enterprlz, with the 
hop that the pies wud becum a biznes senter. 


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The river woz not ezili ncsesibul; but a lit- 
tul enjinerig and a fen men with temz, plouz, 
screperz and the lie wurct a we thru the bar- 
rier ev Rand and rocs, wid enuf tn let a for 
hors tern denn tn the woter ©v the strem. Her 
he constructed a rod landig for hots, and from 
tins sit, then in the wudz, sfhipt hwot he and 
hiz partner collected at Baptistonn, this milz 
awe. 

Befor ecsecgtig this project, the partnerz had 
lest for twenti yerz the river bage donn tn lo- 
woter marc, for nerli a mil in legfh, — so that 
the complstli control d the. hot landig. Upon 
this sit, a cabin woz sian hilt, and in it Andru 
Larisun dwelt. Thus began the mercantil fez 
ov Frendhteun. 

Qbout this tim, September 2d, 1797, Andru 
Larisun marrid Meri Wilsun, doter ©v Jon 
Wilsun and Jenni Dremer, ov the Tonnsftiip 
ov Delawer, Counti ov Hunterdun, Stet ov 
Nen Jerzi. He and hiz partner nou erected a 
bildig hwidh servd both az a dwelig and a 
stor. In this bildig in the sprig ov 1798 An- 
dru began tn cephons; and in it olso he man- 
ejd a stor hwil the senyur partner conducted 
the mercantil afferz at Baptistonn. 

Biznes increst; the bot landig gretli fasili- 
teted the tran sport esfhun ov ther merdhandiz 
and tn it the had ol the prodgs the bot fedht. 


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In purdhasig prod us ev farmerz and utherz, the 
prlsez etferd wer az mudh az possibul aecum- 
panid with the stipulasfhun that the prodgs hot, 
or barterd for, shud be deliverd at the stor at 
the bot land ijg on the bagc ev the Delawar, and 
that tli 8 cemmoditiz sold or barterd awe, shud 
be tacen from ths stor at the River. Thus the 
savd the ecspens ev cartig, from Baptisteun tu 
the Delawar, veil mudh ov ths wali material 
the handuld. This savig sun mad the senyur 
partner ridh, and az sun lifted Andru Laris un 
intu sudh finanshal condishun that he left the 
stor and began tu dm biznes on a wider 
seal, — tu bl and sel farmz, drov sfliep, couz 
and horsez. 

Hwil in this mercantil enterprlz, Andru wun 
the respect and eenfidens not onli ev P. H. M. 
Prevo but ov hiz hoi heushold, so mudh so 
that ever afterward the Prevoz and Andru re- 
mand fast frendz. This frendship and confi- 
dens woz ov no smol advantaj tu Andru. For 
in subseewent specglashunz, if hiz purs woz 
not adeewat tu emerjensiz, he had but tu inti- 
mat hiz nedz tu P. H. M. Prevo or tu hiz sun 
A. M. Prevo, and eni sum that he mit ned woz 
at wuns tenderd tu him. 

The nam Prevo — in Andru Larisun’z er did 
not mac a eufonic prefics tu the wurd faun. 
Hens he reftizd tu col hiz biznes hedeworterz 


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Prevo — teun. But Prevo woz proud gv hiz 
Frendh blud and Andru nsu that it wud bs 
li Gt les plszig tu hiz old Swis admirer tn col 
hiz biznes pies, after the sors gv the old Swis- 
man’z prld than after himself. Hens hs, in ol 
hiz biznes peperz, stor bilz, et cetera , rot 
Frendhtonn insted gv PrevotGiin; and in lo 
hiz conversesfhun hs spoc gv the stor bl the 
river az hiz stor in Frendhtonn, — and the pies 
haz ever sins bin cold 1)1 that nem. 

The first farm that Andru Larisun ond con- 
sisted gv tu hundred and fifti ecerz gv land, 
sitgeted about a mil and a har* tu the norfh-sst 
gv Frendhtonn. On this farm ml father woz 
born, and on it hs livd until flv ysrz old. 1 hav 
ofen herd him spsc in prez gv ths plezantnes 
gv ths sit and ths ecsellensi gv ths cwoliti gv ths 
land, and gv ths plezant tlmz hs had ther in hiz 
erli dhlldhud. 

From hiz farm in Cigwud, nsr Frendhtoun, 
hs muvd in ths sprig gv 1810, upon a farm nou 
ond bl Alfsus Fillips a littul we north gv Har- 
bortun in Merser Co., N. J. From this sit hs 
muvd tu a farm alor) ths Old Yore rod, about 
midwe bstwsn Mounteri and Riggoz, — a pies 
log non az ths old Larisun Homsted, — non ond 
bl Devid W. Larisun,— in ths Teunsfhip gv 
Delawer, Connti gv Hunterdun, Stet gv Nsu 
Jerzi. Upon this farm hs ended hiz dez, Jull 


26fh, 1 SGI . Hiz bedi woz horrid in Barber’z 
Semeteri, in tbs teunsfhip, count i and stet afor- 
nemd, JulT 29fh 1861. 

Fi'Gin the tlm he left the stor in Frendhteun, 
Andm Larisun ©lwez livd upen a farm. 
H wether he llet the wurc insident tu a farm, 1 
no net; but sertinli he lieu wel hwet weztn be 
dun upen a farm, hwen it sJhud be dun, and hen 
itsfhud be dun, — and sumheu he olvvezget hiz 
farm wuredun in tlm, and in the best ev man- 
ner. The farm upen hwidh he li vd, az leg az 1 
nen him, wez ©lwez in the best cendisdiun, az 
wel in tilth, az in bildigz, fensez, rodz, bruc- 
W6z, ©rdhardz, wudz, lenz &c. J havefen herd 
ml father se that he never nen hiz father tu 
wurc at farmig; but, at sum tlm he must hav 
lernd tn dia ©1 the verius leburz diat ar insi- 
dent tu agricult gr, and the manejig ev stec. 
Hiz creps wer ©lwez az gud az die best, hiz 
ceuz, hegz, sfhep and horsez wer ecsellent and 
the ©lwez fard wel, az wel for fiad and drigc az 
for Shelter and, beddig. Hiz epiari wez a sfho, 
hwil hiz turciz, ges, dues, pefeulz, giniz and 
dhicenz completed die complement ev the stec 
ev a wel ©rderd farm. Inded, the old Larisun 
Homsted, upen the Yore Rod, bet wen Meunt- 
eri and Riggoz, wez a spectacul that evei*i 
traveler upen that hi we veud, admlrd and re- 
mem herd; and die stej driver, en hiz we from 


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Prevo — toun. But Prevo wgz proud ov hiz 
Frendh blud and Andru nsu that it wud be 
not les plszig tu biz old Swis admirer tu col 
hiz biznes plus, after tbs sors gv tbs old Swis- 
man’z prld tban after himself. Hens hs, in ol 
hiz biznes peperz, stor bilz, et cetera , rot 
Frendhtoun insted gv Prevotoun; and in lo 
hiz conversesfhun hs spoe gv the stor b! ths 
river az hiz stor in Frendhtoun, — and ths pies 
haz ever sins bin cold bl that nem. 

Ths first farm that Andru Larisun ond con- 
sisted gv tu hundred and fifti ecerz gv land, 
sitgeted about a mil and a haf tu ths norfh-sst 
gv Frendhtoun. On this farm ml father wgz 
born, and on it hs livd until flv ysrz old. $ hav 
ofen herd him spsc in prez gv ths plezantnes 
gv ths sit and ths ecsellensi gv ths cwoliti gv ths 
land, and gv ths plezant tlmz hs had ther in hiz 
erli dhlldhud. 

From hiz farm in Cigwud, nsr Frendhtoun, 
hs muvd in ths sprig gv 1810 , upon a farm nou 
ond bl Alfsus Fillips a littul we north gv Har- 
bortun in Merser Co., N. J. From this sit hs 
muvd tu a farm alog ths Old Yore rod, about 
midwe bstwsn Mounteri and Riggoz, — a pies 
log non az ths old Larisun Homsted, — non ond 
bl Devid W. Larisun, — in ths Tounship gv 
Delawer, Counti gv Hunterdun, Stet gv Nsu 
Jerzi. Upon this farm hs ended hiz dez, Jull 


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26 fh, 1861. Hiz hedi woz berrid in Barber’z 
Semeteri, in the ten nsThi p, ceunti and stetafor- 
nemd, Jull 29th 1861. 

From the tlm hs left die stor in Frendhtoun, 
And ru Larisun oIvvgz livd upon a farm. 
H wether hs llet ths wurc insident tu a farm, 1 
no not; but sertinli hs nsu wel liwat weztn bs 
dun upon a farm, hwen it shud bs dun, and bon 
it shud bs dun, — and sumhou hs ol wez get hiz 
farm wurc dun in tlrn, and in ths best ©v man- 
ner. r fhs farm upon hwidh hs livd, az log az f 
nsn him, woz olwez in ths best condishun, az 
wel in tilth, az in bildigz, fensez, redz, brue- 
W6z, ordhardz, wudz, lanz &e. 1 hay ©fen herd 

ml father se that bs never nsn hiz father tu 
wurc at farmig; but, at, sum tlm hs must hav 
lernd tn dia ol ths verius leburz that ar insi- 
dent tn agricult pr, and ths manejig ©v st©c. 
Hiz crops wer olvvez az gud az ths best, hiz 
conz, h©g*z, sThsj > and horsez wer ecsellent and 
tha olwez ferd wel, az wel for fiad and drigc az 
for Shelter and, beddig. Hiz epiari w©z a sho, 
hwll hiz turciz, ges. dues, psfonlz, giniz and 
dhicenz completed ths complement ©v ths stoc 
ov a wel orderd farm. Indsd, ths old Larisun 
Homsted, upon ths Yore Rod, bstwsn Mount- 
eri and Riggoz, woz a spectaeul that everi 
traveler upon that hlwa vsud, adrnlrd and rs- 
memberd; and ths stej driver, on hiz we from 


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Filadellia in Nen Voic, a z lie past that tJm 
onurd mansdiun, envlrend bT stetli trez, and a 
beutifnl yard, wez vvunt tu point tu it, mid se 
tu the passenjerz in the stej : “Tlier livz Andria 
Larisun.” 

II 8 woz cunstabul ev the Toiinsttiip ov Del- 
awer from 1823 tn 1828 hwen die Tonnsfhip ov 
Delawer consisted ov hvvot iz non Delawer, 
8st Amwel, West Arnwel, Larnbertvil and 
Raritan, and the biznes, under tbs loz hvvidh 
then egzisted, eecupid nsrli ol ov a man’z tlm; 
and rsevvlrd a persun ov superior cwolifice- 
sliunz tu attend tn it. lion wel he woz adapt- 
ed tu die biznes 1 no not; but he sertinli woz 
veri popular az a cunstabul, and semd tn lie 
the biznes it brot. I hav ofen herd him tel, in 
hiz spirited, gild yumurd we, on die perse ver- 
ans, tact and derir) cwolitiz nesesserili recwlrd 
tn effect the ecsecqsihun ov sum rits |>lest in 
hiz handz. At diat tlm, a man cud be impriz- 
und for det; and tu arrest wun that prezented 
die apperans ov leviij the stet, without peiij hiz 
dets, woz a common occurrens, and it woz the 
onli we tn mec the creditorz ov an abscond iij 
detor sef. But, tu arrest sudh woz, ©fentlmz, 
not ezi, and ofen attended with sum denjer, — 
mor realli than the lo recwlrd ov an offiser. 
Hens, if die ofRser woz a littul couardli, die 


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detor, if pritti ruf, and non tn bp, incllnd tu 
blud. efen eseapt. 

* hav efen herd him tel ov a littul fst that 
lie fhot wurthi ev mensfhun, — and I fhigc veri 
caract eristic ev the man, az an effiser. It semz 
ther wez a man (Lambert bl nam, I fhigc) hu 
livd upon a farm ner Senter-Bridj (neu Stec- 
tun) in rather a prefliget we hu beeam indet- 
ed tn several, and hu, in Older tn enabul him 
tu C8p from paii) hiz creditorz and tu hav sum- 
fhig tu start biznes in anuther stat, sold hiz 
effects in a cwiet vva, peceted the muni, and 
prsperd tu pas over into Pensilvania. He 
wez a ruf fello, a cTnd ev brigand at the best, 
and ol fsrd him. The cunstabul wez appiizd 
ev the cendisfhun ev affarz the afternun bsfor 
the mornig upen hwidh the abscendig fello in- 
tended tu lev the stat. No tlm wez lest. Q 
preper rit, bl wun ev the creditorz, wez ebtand 
frem the preper ofheriti and plast in the cun- 
stabul’z handz At wuns he set eut tu arrest 
the abscendig *detor. But be for he redht hiz 
hens, he met anuther creditor, frem hum he 
get preper paperz for cellectig. He arrivd at 
hiz heus bet wen sunset and dare, and incwlrd 
for him ; hiz wlf stated that he wez net at 
horn, and that slhe thot that he wild net be un- 
til Ihe felloig da; that he had gen awa upen 
biznes. Az it wez then eventld, and az ther 


we r no lionzez nsr bl, tiler wer not rneiii dhans- 
ez tu get ed tu help vvetdh the lions, or tn gen 
li wot informesfhun he nsded. Accordigli he 
left the lions, az lie wud if ol fhigz wer satis- 
factori, proseded tu wun ov the uerest neburz 
lua priavd tu be interested in the matter, This 
nebui* aslhsfh urd Andria that the del or woz in 
the lions hvven he cold for him; that it woz 
non that biz wif and an accomplis had him hid 
awe, and that die bragd that die wer anrid, 
and diat if he woz found, he wud not be teeen 
without the sttieddig ov blud, that the had but 
wun mor nit in Neu Jerzi, and then die pgpul 
ov Neu Jerzi in It go tu hel. 

He advlzd die eunstabul tu not attempt tu 
vizit (he hous, az he wud sertinli get hurt, es- 
peshalli az it woz then after nit; that he had 
better run the rise ov gettiij him hwen lie at- 
tempted tu eros over the river tu Pensilvenia ; 
diat he woz at best a ruf, blud-luvig fello lua 
wud be glad tu get intia die rufest clnd ov an 
affre befor he left. 

But that chid ov a stetment wud not intim- 
idat Andria Laris, un; it wud onli the mor 
arouz hiz determineshun tu dia hiz dpti. Ac- 
cordigli he sed : “Can J lev ml hors with yu 
til S col for it?” Tu this the repll woz “Yu 
can!” “Then” sed the eunstabul, “PI cadh 
that damd scoundrel and brig him tu justis. 


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Du yu wont tu send yur clem with ms? — I 
sThal get hiz muni, az sfhur a/ hs iz allv.” Tu 
this ths nabur rsplld: wud lie tu get ml 

muni, but I hav not fhot it wurfh hwll tu trl — 
I fhirjc hs haz thirjz best so that hiz credit orz 
can’t get enifhig, sven it the put him in jal ’’ 
Tbs cunstabul rsplld : “Wei! that iz hwot f 
am non goig tu ss about; and if yu wish tu 
trl tu get yur muni, and wil plus yur clam in 
ml handz, I wil du hwet I can for yu.” 

Ths clam wez plast in Andru’z handz, and 
hs started alon tu ths hous in liwidh ths detor 
livd. It wez dare, and it woz ranig a littul, 
sn uf tu mac it veri disagrsabul tu a stranjer 
tu woe hwar hs had net bin bsfor. Hwen hs 
anivd at ths hens and noct at ths dor, a wu- 
man’z vois sed : “Hu iz thar?” Ths cun- 
stabul rsplld : “ Andru Laris un hu wishez tit 

ss Mr. L. on biznes.” — Ths wuman rsplld: 
“Mr. L. iz net at horn, I am alon and yu must 
go awa from (hs hous, I can’t let yu in nor bs 
anneid b! yu.” 

Herupon, ths cunstabul left (hs hous and 
seersted himself bshlnd a, ston-wol that woz 
hilt around it at sum distans, az a chid ev fens 
tu ths dor-yard, — awatig (hs detor’z rsturn, if 
hs bs awa, or an opportgiiiti tu gan acses tu 
ths hous in cas an accomplis or eni confiden- 
tial, tiud vizit it bsfor mornig. Lat at nit — 


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after midnlt — he herd fut-steps; — the persun 
befor redhig the get that led tu the hous, left 
the rod and went toord the hous. Nou woz biz 
tlm; ether the detor woz cumig hom or sum 
confidenshal woz vizi tig the; hous. With pistol 
in hand, Andru cwTetli aroz from behind the 
wol and girded himself for aosfhun. Az the 
persun noct upon the dor, tu gen an Gidiens, 
sum wun within shouted : 64 Hu iz ther?” — The 
fello replid in a lo vois, givig hiz nem. At 
wuns he herd the persun within sa : 4k Ol iz 
lit.” Az he herd die persun within unbar- 
rig the dor, he scipt toord the hous, and az the 
dor opend tu admit die vizitor, he (the cun- 
stab ul) past into the hous, under die arm ov 
the detor that held the dor open tu admit the 
vizitor. The detor had a club in hiz hand, tu 
do servis in cos he had bin desevd bl die per- 
sun hu gav hiz nem, or woz attended hi eni 
wun hu mit be armd with die lo. But the 
detor so ther woz no dhans tu yuz hiz club ; 
a pistol — coct, the trigger ov liwidh under die 
figger ©v him hu held it, — woz olredi pointed 
at hiz fas. He so that he woz tu be a ded 
man, at wuns, in cas he attempted tu rezist 
the offiser ov the lo. 

The cunstabul, hwll holdig hiz pistol in wun 
hand, plast hiz empti hand upon the detor’z 
sfaolder and sed: 44 Yu ar ml prizuner; giv 


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me that dub and bs ssted.” The dolor rs- 
luctcmtli obed. lie then sed tu the vizitor 
and tu liiz wlf: “Bs ssted, and mec yurselvz 
cumfurtabul : Slmv a lit t u 1 biznes tu tranzact 
and I wont thg hens az ewlet az pessibul.” 

Thg isfh ev ths prizuner wer rattling amez- 
irjli, and hiz wlf. Intend olrnost out ev her wits, 
wez crlig 1‘ui iusli. Q fsu c-Tnd wurdz enebuld 
him tn gen an odiens, and hs med non hiz 
biznes. Theru pen hs prszented dig smolest 
clem hs had, — ameuntig tu sum seventi-flv 
dellarz, — ths wun put in hiz handz bl ths first 
clamant. Thg detor cenclqded rather than tu 
go with him tu jel, hs wud pe ths clem. — II wen 
ths muni wez rsssvd and plest in thg cunsta- 
bul’z pecet, hg prszented anuther clem that 
wez a littul larjer. Hsrupen thg detor mani- 
fested mudh ajite^hun, and gret rgiuctans tu 
pe. But fits cunstabul informd him that hg 
so hwen gettig ths muni tu pe ths uther clem 
that lis had mor muni and that hg wud net let 
him hav a dhans tu giv it tu eni wun els; that 
hs never let a prizuner in hiz dharj go eut ev 
hiz sit nor hand enithig tu anuther; nor tu tec 
enithig frern anuther, — and tliat hwet muni hs 
had, wud hav tu bs yuzd tu satisfl ths clem — 
at the lsst so far az it wud go; that les muni 
wnd satisfl ths clem hwll hs had onli ths fsz 
ev wun effiser tu pe, than wud hwen hs had 


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bin tacen tu jal, az then he wild lmv a number 
9v offiserz tu pa. Her upon, the detor conclud- 
ed tu pc the clam. Hwen bs had counted out 
the muni, and handed it tu the cunstabul, and 
the cunstabul had plast it in hiz purs, he pre- 
zented anuther clam much larjer than the sum 
ov the ufher tu, and demanded pament for 
this. Herupon, the detor asct if be bad eni 
mor clamz agenst him. Tu this the cunstabul 
replld that he had not, that be bad given him 
such short notis ev biz (die detor’s) prepara- 
shun tu lev the stat diat be had not bad tun tu 
luc u[> eni mor clamz, and that die last clam 
that he prezented he had got sins he vizit ed 
the lious in die eveni^ — hwen he went over 
tu nabur So-and-so’z tu get stablip for hiz 
hors. — The detor then stated that if he had 
non or suspected, hwen he woz arrested, that 
he woz goig tu prezent ol thoz thre clamz be 
wud not hav pad eni, that he wild hav run die 
rise ov savig a littul ov biz muni thru tactics 
with the jaler; but az it woz, if that woz the 
last clam he had, he wud pa it, and be wud 
then cros die bridj into Pensil vania az sun az 
he cud. Az he counted out the muni and 
handed it tu the cunstabul, be eesclamd : 
“ This iz a damd sfham: If ecspected tu go intu 
Pensil vania tii-morro with mor than seven 
hundred dollarz; but non IE hav onli about 


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twenti fiv dollarz left.” Herupon the cunsta- 
bul asct: “Hvvet tlm tn-morro du yu ecspect 
tu lev the stet? — The repll woz: “We ec- 
spected tu eras the bridj befor sunrlz — but it 
wil not rnec so mudh differens neu if we 
don’t get of so erli: but hwT dm yu asc that 
cwestyun?” “Wei’’ sed the cunstabul, “IE 
fhot mu be yu wud wet until 1 cud go tu Lam- 
bertvil and bac — it wil not tec lor).” Herupon 
the detor luet ernestli at hiz wif and sed: 
“ Rechel! get yur bonnet and put on yur sfhuz, 
and let us cros that bridj az sun az we can — 
God onli noz hou sun he wil be her a gen vvith 
morclemz — and I’d suner undertec tu get out 
ov the devil’z elutdhez than tu escep from 
hiz.” — And thus seii), the man and hiz wif put 
on liwot the had tu wer, tuc hwot the intended 
tu carri in ther handz, and the with Ihe vizitor 
and cunstabul left the hous — die vizitor, tu go 
tu hiz horn, die cunstabul, tu the neburz at 
hwidh he left hiz hors and a the damd scoun- 
drel,” az grandfather cold him, “intu Pensil- 
venia tu le planz tu dhet sumbodi els.” 

The cunstabul, a littul befor the brec ov de, 
rapt at die dor ov the nebur with hum he left 
the hors ; the nebur ai oz, let him intu the 
hous, and sed: “ Hou did. yu sucsed? — Tu 
this the cunstabul replld: got yur muni ! 

and her it iz,— tec it.” The nebur, sloli tecig 


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the muni and lueip at it veri smilipli sed: 
“Wei! I never ecspected tu get this — net a 
sent ev it — hwot sflhal giv yu for yur trifb- 
nl?” Tu this the cunstabul replTd : “O, $ 

mad the damd seeundrel pa me ml fez — J 
don’t wonteni fhig from yu!” — “ Wei ! but the 
rises yu hav run in gettip the muni for me, and 
her, yu hav bin up in the cold and wet ol nit, 
and yur cloth/ ar wet upon yu neu — sudh un- 
dertacipz- must be satisfid — f wud not hav dun 
hwot yu hav for the hoi bil— and I am wilip 
tu giv yu haf ov it for gettip it.” Tu this the 
offiser replTd : wont nufhip from yu — * got 

ml fez — that iz ol die lo eespects me tu toe. 
And, die lo eespects me tu never let sudh 
damd scoundrel/ escap pai p thar dets, and T1 
be damd if I wil, hwen I can help it. II wen 
yu let wun scoundrel escap paip hiz dets, yu 
hav encurajd ten gud sitizens tu becum scoun- 
drelz. The satisfaeshun ov bripip sudh felloz 
tu justis, and macip them pa thar onest dets iz 
a hi reword tu everi offiser ov die lo.” 

Herupon a decanter ov brandi, a glas, sum 
shugar and a pitdher ov woter woz plast ujion 
a tabul that woz betwen them, edh drape tu 
the helffi ov the uther, az woz the custum in 
thoz daz, the cunstabul mounted hiz hors and, 
in die gra ov die mornip, set out tu pa tu thoz 


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hu had put clemz in hiz handz, the muni lie 
had collected for them. 

Andru Larisun did a gret del ev biznes hi 
wo ev set lip the estets ov desest neburz, and 
efen acted az gardian for orfan dhildren. But 
dtp-ip hiz older dez, the most ev hiz tlm woz 
occiipid in lucip after hiz investments, — hiz 
farmz, hiz milz, &c , &c. In die teunsflhip ov 
West Amwel, he ond a farm thru hwidh the 
Alecsocen Rivulet Hos. Upon this farm wei 
milz; a flourii) mil, a so-mil, an oil-mil and a 
slder-mil and a distileri. Tu cep thez in rsper, 
and tu luc after the interests ov several uther 
farmz that he ond censtpnd mudh tlm. 



1 Sera 

From 

2 Jen 

Andru Larisun and 

3 Jon W. 

Mori Wilsun 

4 Andru 

isfasflhud: 

5 Benjamin 


6 Qbraham D. 


7 Lavlna 


2 Jen, did Jan. 2Gfh, 1800, ejd 19 dez. 

G ebruham D. did Oct. llfh, 1815, ejd 5yerz, 6 munflis, 8 dez 


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CHAPTER III. 

Se ua Larisun. 

Sera Larisun woz born in Frendhteun, 
Mardh 2d, 1798. She marrid 6run Wilsun, 
Feb. 24th, 1830. 

The settuld upon a farm ner Harbortun in 
the Tonnsfhip ev Hopwel, Ceunti ev Merger, 
N. J. Upon this farm the dwelt until the 
spring ov 1862, hwen the muvdtu Lambertvil, 
hwer he did. For a tlm therafter Sera livd 
with her doter Lavina in Lambertvil; but af- 
ter a feu yerz thereturnd tu the homsted and 
ther dwelt until Sera’z deth, Des. 12th, 1883. 

L r ntia 

6run Wilsun f 1 Meri 

and 2 Lavina A. 

Sera Larisun [3 Jen L. 

wer born 

1 Meri marrid Alfeus Fillips. The neu 
iv upon a farm ner Harbortun, Merser Ceunti. 
Untu them hav bin born Cirun Carmen, Sera F., 


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Josefsn V., Anna L., Mari II., and Onilda J. 

G. Carman marrid Ella Wilsun, bl hum hs 
baz vvun dhlld, Jozef. Sara marrid Oliver Ti- 
tus, bl hum sfhs had Sara and 8dith. Josefsn 
marrid Jorj Wulsi, bl hum sfhs had Lizzi. 
Onilda marrid Samuel Hart. 

2 Lavlna A. did a mad, Ma 24th, 1887 
ajd 54 yerz, 4 months, 28 daz. 

3 Jan L. Wilsun, marrid Sara A. Fillips. 
Jun 15th, 1861. Hs nau livz in Lambertvil, 

1 Tiz dhildren ar: Rozella, Catti and Grun 
Carman. Rozella marrid Qlanzo Severz, bl 
hum slis had Viola. 


CHAP TEE IV. 

Jon W. Laris un. 

Jan W. Larisun waz born Jull 11th, 1801. 
He marrid Marla Fislier, Ma 0th, 1822. In 
ths sprig av 1823, tha muvd upan a farm in 
Delawar Tonnsfhip, then ond bl hiz father, nau 
ond bl Jan D. Larisun. In ths sprig av 1828 
hs hot ths Tavern an ths old Yore rod, a mil 
northsst av Ringoz, nau cold Plezant Corner. 
This tavern hs cept until about 1850. — Hs can- 


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timid tu liv at Plezant Corner until the winter 
ov 1886 — 87, at hwidh tun, biz wif havig did, 
he, went tu liv with hiz bruther Benjamin, and 
with him he st.il livz. 


Unto 

Jon \V. Larisun 
and 

Maria Fislher* 
wer born 


1 Jorj, 

2 Jen Fisfh'er, 

) 

3 Lgcresfhia An, 

4 Qbraham W., 


1 Jorj wez born Mardh 19th, 1823. IIs 
marrid Sara Holeum, doter ev Ralf Holcum, 
Oct. 5th, 1846, hi hum he had fhrs dhildren: 
El wild Larisun (born Juli 4th, 1848) hu mar- 
rid Matti Snider; Helen Larisun hia wez born 
Sept. 4th, 1850; and Jen W. Larisun (born 
Feb. 25th, 1852) ho marrid Trui Dilts. 

Sara Holcum did Juli 23d, 1855. Subss- 
cwentli Jorj marrid Mari An Pacsun, doter 
ev Ruben Pacsun ev Fragclin Teunsfhip, Hun- 
terdun Count i, N. J., bl hum he had Tomas H. 
Larisun (born Jun 28th, 1857) hu marrid Eliz- 
abeth Holcum, doter ev Emil i Holcum (Jan. 
6th, 1883) and hu lieu livz in Lambert vil, "N. J.; 

*Mana Fisher wez the doter ev Jeceb Fisher, liu livd en die 
old Fisher Homsted, ner Recteun N. J. 


Jorj Larisun (born Feb. 7th, 1859) lna mar- 
rid Etta Sanderz, Qpril 9th, 1884; Jacob S. 
Larisun (born Qgust 23d, 1860) ho marrid 
Mari Teufel, Sept. 13th, 1886; Mari Elizabeth 
Larisun lna vvoz born Jull 19th, 1862; Lqcrs- 
sfhia An Larisun (born Mardh 18th, 1864); 
Sara S. Larisun hta wez born Jan. 7th, 1866, 
inarrid Jon R. Holcum, sun ©v Thomas S. 
I [oleum, Feb. 12th, 1885, b! hum sfhe haz Eva 
S. C., l)oi*n Jan. 9th, 1886, and Jamz Garrell, 
born JnlT 28th, 1888; and Jan S. Larisun lna 
vvoz born Jan. 24th, 1869. 

2 Jon F. Larisun marrid Clarinda Dilts 
lna had Andria, hia marrid a Stevensun; Ed- 
ward H., Fransis, Lewis, hia marrid a Crosdal. 

3 Lqcresihia An marrid Ogustus Blacwel, 
bl liiam slhe had Chari z B. (marrid Sara FisTh- 
er) and Anna M. 

4 Qbraham did Mardh 14th, 1850, ajd 
7 months. 


CHAP TEH V. 


Andru Laklsun. 


xVndria Larisun, second sun ©v Andria Lari- 
sun ths drover, woz born Oct. 2nd, 1803. He 


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marrid Meri An Fillips, Feb. 2nd, 1837. He 
did at the old Lari's un Homsted, en the Yore 
rod, Jan. 12th, 1885. 

Unto him wer born Jon P., hu did Qgust 
4th, 1846, njd 7 yerz, 7 munfhs and 2 dez, and 
Devid (born Mg 10th, 1844), hu marrid Sera 
An Wilsun, Nov. 9th, 1864, bl hum he had 
Meri Carolin Laris un (born Mardh 24th, 1867, 
marrid Charlz E. Holcum, Nov. 1886); Jen 
Fillips Larisun (born Jnll 12th, 1868, marrid 
Besse B. Mathijz, Nov. 9th, 1887); Cora Mg 
L arisun, (bom Jull 13th, 1872); and Heuard 
Wilsun Larisun (born Jull 6th, 1875). 

Duvid Larisun livz upon the farm ner 
MountGri, Hunterdun Co. 1ST. J., so loi] non az 
the Larisun homsted. He iz a cwiet, industri- 
us, upiit, hom-luvig man, a fhrifti farmer and 
a gud sitizen. 

He iz a gud agricolist and a sucsesful ten- 
der ev stoe. Ol the appointments ov hiz larj 
farm ar first clas. He iz olwez abrest ev, or 
a littuf in advans ov the best ov hiz naburz, 
with hiz feld wurc; hwil hiz stoe madhez that 
ev die best brederz. 

In politics he iz a democrat; in relijun a 
Pvezbiterian — a member ov the Prezbiterian 
Churdh at MountGri. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

BEKJCLMm LARISUN. 

Benjamin Larisun woz born u]>on the, 5th, 
ov Jan peri 1805, upon a farm nsr Frendhtoun, 
in Cipwud Tounslhip, Hunterdun Co., N. J. 
Hiz father wisfhip him tu pursp the profesfhun 
ov Lo, at an erli det had him trend tu thoz 
brandhez ov lernip that wer in thoz timz, sup- 
pozd tu be essenshal tu that vocesfhun*. But, 
az hs prsferd agricultpr, hr, gria up tu a nolej 
ov that art and haz olvvez pirrspd it, — with dil- 
ijens, soil and sucses. 

Hs haz olvvez bin avers tu hold ip public po- 
zisfhunz or eni offis hwidh end, in eni we, bs 
considerd a gift ov ths pspul. Iliz ambishun 
haz ever bin tu du hiz on biznes, in hiz on we, 
enestli, lethfulli, in tun, with dssensi and in or- 
der, and tu let utherzdia az the plszd. 11s haz 
olvvez bin slo tu sse ad vis ov eni, and a thou- 
sand tlmz sloer tu giv: advls — even tu thoz hu 
ssc it ov him. Under everi sircumstans ov a 
lop Ilf, and amid ol ths perplecsip difficultiz 
that, az a biznes man ov 81 ysrz, hs must hav 


encounterd, he haz ©Iwgz semd tu no just 
hwot vvez best tu dm; and dqrig ©1 diez yerz, 
he haz just az wel non hou tu let the biznes ov 
uther foes alon. Tu no the biznes ov hiz na- 
burz, unles aset bl the proper wun tu no it, 
or tu no eni wun’z privet after z, ar sinz that 
Benjamin Larisun never committed. He ©1- 
wez had a cen I tu se h wot ever cud eondiis tu 
the prosperity happines and the gud ov oh but 
woz ever blind tu enithiq that end onli mar 
die feliijz, and hurt hqmaniti. Cqrius enuf he 
haz ever bin tu no h wot ever cud tend tu elevet 
mortalz, but he never abend hiz cqriositi tu 
led him into a nelej ov thiqz that tend tu the 
' mizeri ov eni wun. And hwll hiz herir) haz 
ohvez bin cen, and he haz log herd the toe in- 
sident tu bizi Ilf*, he haz olwaz bin slo and ec- 
sediqli costhus in repet iq hwot he herz. Thus, 
he haz olwaz livd, not onli in pes with hiz nc- 
burz, but gratli respected b! them. Hiz motto 
haz ever bin: “Never fhige il ov a man unles 
yu ar cempeld tu dm so bl hwot yu persunalli 
no ov him; and, if yu can sg no gud ov a per-- 
sun, sa the lest that yu can about him, — re- 
memberig that everi wun ma hav relativz that 
ma be wurthi, — hmz feligz yu ma not hav a 
lit, tu hurt.” 

Tu politisfhunz, he haz olwaz bin avers; and 
in politics, he haz ever tacen die lest part pos- 


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sibul. For the prezidensi, he voted for Jac- 
sun, Hamsun, Cla, Telur, Scot. 

Hs W9Z baptizd into ths Baptist Churdh ev 
Sandi Ridj Mardh 1868. Up. vvez sleeted ds- 
con in that dhurdh in 1869 and stil holdz that 
effis. 

Hs marrid Hanna An Holcum,* Feb. 28th, 
1829. Hs settuld upon a farm nsr Sandi Ridj 
Churdh (non ond and occqpid hi Jon D. Lari- 
sun) Qpril 1829. Upon this farm hs livd un- 
til J ul! 1873; at hwidh tun hs movd into His 
lions in hwidh hs noil dwelz. Ths hous hwidh 
hs non occitpTz hs hilt dip-ir) ths ysrz 1872 and 
1873. 


* Hanna An Holcum (born Nov. l'7th, 1809) wez a cl©ter ev 
Captin Jorj Holcum, lua livcl upon a farm in West Amwel 
Teunship, Hunterdun Co., N. J., neu eccippld bi biz sun Anclru 
15. Ilolcum. Her muther wez Cafherin Butterfos, a d©ter ev 
Andru Butterf©s and Hester Ent ev Sandi Ridj. 

Hanna An Larisun wez a wel proporshund, muscular wu- 
man, about medium in hit. She wez noted for strength and 
peuer ev endqmns. Meni ev the fets she accemplisht wer ec- 
straordineri. •Fwuns so") her carri a sac ev solt, weir) 820peundz 
from a wagen, die distans ev 25 yardz, and then up a flit ev 
sterz. She wez non for her ecspertnes in the manejii) ev horsez, 
liwether under die saddul or in hurncs. 

She wez a ewiet wuman, pesabul and indust rius, and wonted 
everi bedi els til be so. She wez handi — unqzhualli so — in everi 
branch ev her wurc. She wez a wever hi tied, and wov meni 
ev die linen sliets and the blarjcets under hwich her children 
slept. Sum ev her handi wurc ev this cind stil egzists. 

* liav herd her, and * hav herd utherz se that she had sherd 
the sliep, wesht, culurd and carded die wul, spun it intu yarn, 


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Benjamin Larisa n gru tu manhud hwTl (he 
manli sports wer yet cultivated. Tru tu the 
instigcts ©v hiz Larisun blud, he erli becam a 
famus danser, and a hero at reslii) and jumpig. 
Az he W9z smoler ©v statm* (not raor than flv 
fet at incJhez tol), than die averaj ov the Lari- 
sunz he semd tu be les sijted tu reslig. But, 
in this lln he had a record that woz enviabul. 

J hav herd ineni lua grid up vvi th him relat 
insidensez sfhoig hiz abiliti in this feld. And 
it apperz from thar toe that hvven from t.wenti 
tu twentitu yerzov aj, he woz ©fen sen at dint 
gam, and woz pritti sfhiar tu cum of first best. 

wov it intu cleth, cut it and med it intu garments f©r her oldest 
tu children. 

With her, ©1 vvez order. For everifhig she had a pies, and 
everifhig must be dun en tim. The sezunz cem, and brot ther 
clienjez — never tu sun for her ; tile wurc ev the Fol wez dun 
in the Fol and she wez redi for tile dqtiz ev Winter az sun az 
the sezun cem. The wurc ev the Winter wez dun in the Win- 
ter, and ther wez no liggerig censideresliunz draggig aleg tu in- 
terfer with the dqtiz or the enjeiments that the Sprig munfhs 
brot. She wez ever redi — never in a hurri ; tu ecsecqt o pes ev 
wurc lietself, wez suner dun and ezier dun, than tu tel anuther 
tu du it, or lieu tu du it. 

She wez a rijid dissiplinerian. She wez cerful in givig ©r- 
derz. But, her orderz must be obed tu the letter and egzactli 
upon the tim spesitid. She med no cempromiz with sloth and 
no provizhun for feller. She did net fel herself; she did net 
ecspect her children tu fel. She respected her children and the 
erli lernd that the must respect her. She gev her children hwet 
she wislit them tu hav, and then the must tec cer ev hwet wez 
given them. Dissolq,tnes, in eni wun, she never telereted ; ther 
wez no ecsciis for vis ; and yet she lict sport, had sport, and tot 


la;} 

Jacob Scene lna wez sum ten ysrz older than 
Benjamin Larisuu, but hia, accordii] tn thai* 
stetments, wez with him mudh ©v the tarn dm- 
ii] hiz yugger ysrz, yuzd tn establish a clnd ©v 
cinsfhip tn ms, bscoz hs had bin so intimatli 
ace wanted with ml father and had acted az hiz 
“second” so ©fen in reslir) madhez. And with 
prld and egzultasbun hs yuzd tn tel ms with 
hwet “ bulliz ” hs had ssn ml father grappul 

her children tu be sportiv. And, in wit and yiiinur she wez a 
terror, tu humsoever she attacted. 

Her test for the eufenic, the beutiful and the tru wez ecscwiz 
it. In the beuti ev form and culur slie wez ever instructig, and 
in ©1 she did her appreshiesliun ev thez elements wer slion. 
Her appreshiesliun ev eufoni wez remarcabul. The medelz tu 
hwicli she referd wer select. Mwen so smol that she had tu 
carri me a part ev the we, she yuzd tu tec me, in the evenig, tu 
the wudz tu her the Swamp Rebin ( Hylocichla mustelina ) sig, 
and then liwll lissenig tu the veis ev this, die swetest veis ev the 
ferest segsterz, she wud cemment upen the p^riti and clernes ev 
its not, and centrast it with that ev segsterz ev les ecsellens, — in 
such a we that die lessunz she then gev me 4 stil remember and 
the liav ever bin mi gid in everi effort that i hav med liwen eu- 
foni wez invelvd 

If her children did net hav a gud greundig in the Fin arts, it 
wez net becoz the had desended fretn a muther hia wez barren 
ev Esthetics, or frem wun liu had neglected tu tech them that 
the beutiful and the eufenic olwez attend die gud, and that in 
ai t, simmetri transendz ©1 uther thigz. 

She wez baptizd intu the Sandi Ridj Church bi the Rev. Jorj 
Yug liwen abeut34 yerz old. She wez an egzemplari cristyun,— 
ful ev that spirit that, grest the gud Samaritan. 

She did ev apoplecsi, after an dues ev sics dez, en die 14th, ev 
November 1869. Her remenz iz interd in die Semeteri at 
Sandi Ridj, N. J. 


and ho n sun he put them upon ther baes. He 
yuzd tu se : “In the ceunti ev Hunterdun 
ther woz not a man tu be found, hu, in a for 
set round, cud put Ben. Larisun upon hiz bac, 
and 1)1 for menz he woz never put ther.” 

This stotment, houever, duz not nesseserili 
implT that Benjamin Larisun cud thro everi 
man in the count i ov Hunterdun. I hav dun 
enuf at reslir) mTself tu no that wun mo he 
madht — that tu persunz mo kt toc hold” and 
moc lTvli tlmz, — go over the turf at a racet, 
and moc the dust fli amozigli — until both al- 
so tird that the ecwolli dezir tu dro the gem. 
Mor sport iz seldum sen than hwen tu felloz 
or perfect li madht in a reset. 

Ov dansir) lie woz sertinli veri fond and at 
it, in hiz erli dez, he must hav dun mudh. 
At the lest, it semz tu me that in sentral 1ST eu 
Jerzi, everi bodi ner the sem oj with him hu 
had a “record” in dansir) yuzd tu clem cin- 
sdiip, or at the lest, a rit tu an accwontans witti 
me becoz the had danst with mi father. 

In dansir), in hiz cos, (and hav sen him at 
it meni a tlm), lit lies ov step woz the promi- 
nent fez. In this smolnes ev stotip' and lit - 
lies ov from grotli oded. Ralf Sutfin, hu woz 
about mi father’z oj and wun ev hiz assosfhiets 
in erli lit, sed tu me wun do, durirj hiz last il- 


nes (li8 (ild at file aj ev 8T): I Ton iz yur 

father, Doctor?” 1 replld: “He iz wel 5 
fhagc yu!” Sed he : u O, hou 1 yuzd tu lie tu 
se him dans. He woz az nimbul n z a Fa.” 

0v hiz abiliti tu jump IE no sumfhig. Hwen 
about 21 yerz old, 1 woz at ml father’z on a 
vizit. Az he woz soig gras-sed, IE volunterd 
tu go with him tu help him so. The feld in 
liwidh we wer at ware, woz oppozit tu wun in 
hwidh nabur Job Wulvertun and hiz men wer 
duig the sem clnd ev wure. Hwen the so that 
i woz with mi father soig, the cam up in the 
feld tu se : “ I leu dia yu dia?” et cetera. Sian, 

A slier, the oldest sun (about 27 yerz old) lua 
had a record in athletic sports sed : Wel ! 
Cornel ! 1 hop yu hav not got so depli engajd 
in Latin and Grec that yu find no tim tu dans, 
jump, rid horsez standig on thar bar baes and 
swim az yu yuzd tu dia.” “O no!” 1 replld, 
“IE tac sum eeserslz wuns in a hwll.” 

Therupon he stept out upon a sit that woz 
favurabul for jumpig and began tu mac tlioz 
mosfhunz hwidh olwaz presed a gud log lep. 
At the first bound he marct 12 fet. 0v cors, 
1 madht him, — nufhig les wild du for wun hia 
woz a Collejiat, and J woz tia modest tu dia 
mor. 

Qgen he jumpt, and agen $ woz earful tu 
plant ml fut-steps in tlie tracs he had mad. 


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Az w8 wer ner tbs hlwe, ws sun began tu bav 
vizitorz hu wetdht our efforts with dellt. — So, 
jump fellod jump fora tlm — hvven sum utherz 
hia, bl that tun, had congregated, wisht tu trl 
thar abiliti tu out dia hwot w'e had dun. But 
ov thoz hu jumpt ©1 fel behind Asher’z tracs. 

The old foes, Job, father, Morris Coudric, 
Jacob W orman and uttierz hu with yui)ger 
wunz had assembuld, tuc much interest in our 
sport. Job woz a veri fat lello, (wad nerli 
ffire hundred poundz) and a haiti lafer, hu 
never tlrd ov sport. Az he wonted tu cep the 
fun 'goir) az lor) az he cud, he sed : ‘‘Bois, ttier 
iz an old man in the part i hu can bet eni ov 
yu, if we can onli get him at it/’ 

The respons cam from a duzen mouthz : 
Hu iz he? put him on the turf.” 

Job then sed: Her, Ben! Sho thoz boiz 
lion we yuzd tu jump.” 

Ben woz reluctant tu go upon the turf- — he 
woz out ov practis — had not practist (he sed) 
in over twenti yerz ; — but with uijii) from ol, 
he stept up tu the seor, mad about the muvz 
that old, first clas jumper/ olwez mac, sprai) 
with an ajiliti that brot ttie blush tu the dhec 
ov both Asher and mlself and planted biz helz 
sics indhez over the best mezlnir that we had 
mad. — Ol in the parti wer tu mudh astonisht 


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tu laf. Asher, tu mec lmitterz az ezi for him- 
self and for ms, and tu do enur tu the man 
hu had so ezili bsten us, sed : “ Wei, Cornel, 

it’s a gud fhiq yur father iz out ev practis — or 
hs wud hav distanst us so gretli that ws wud 
be ashemd tu ever agen jump, in the prezens 
9 v this parti.” 

Benjamin Larisun wgz in no sens a ceuard. 
Hwil hiz curej olwaz pruvd adecwet tu the 
emerjensi, it shu best in thoz senz in hwidh 
neburslhip, and filanfhropi wer invelvd. In 
duig hiz dqti, ther wez no fiindhig. Az a tip 
ev this fez ev the man, I wil tel a littul stori. 

Dqrig the summer ev 1854, celera invaded 
eur cuntri. At first, the sitiz onli wer scurjd, 
but sian it spred eut into the villejez and the 
rural districts. Meni did ev it and the terror 
ev it wez appolig. Meni ev thoz hu wer pres- 
treted did witheut the cer ev a nurs — so ferful 
wer even the relativz ev the sic. 

In eur ceunti, meni did. During the epi- 
demic, wun Sunde, I attended dhurdh at 
Meunteri. As the pepul wer goig intu die 
dhurdh, a hers berig wun, ded ev celera, and 
tia men tu dig a grev, past intu the grevyard 
that adjeind the dhurdb-bildig. Befor the 
Rev. Circpatric ended hiz sermen, a littul 
neiz at the grevyard gel attracted mi atten- 


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shun; and ax f luct eut ov the windo, i so 
an u ther hers with an u ther bedi ded ov colera 
enter in for interment. And so it went ol that 
wee — net onli dgrig the da, but dgrig the nit az 
wel. Ol wer afrit — and meni left the nebur- 
hud ; utherz wnd not nurs the sic, or vizit 
heuzez in hwidh the sic la. 

Qfter brecfast, on the felloig Sunda mornig, 
ml father wez misig. Mu ther incwlrd ov us 
(the dhildren) several tlmz tn no Invar he woz. 
Me woz so rarli absent unles he had previusli 
stated the fact that he wez goig tn be awa for 
a littul hwil, that ther setnd tn be just coz for 
alarm. Qbout nun he woz senreturniij from 
wun ov the naburz. Child lie, ov cors, we ran 
tu met him and tu lern hwar be had bin and 
hwl he had stad so log. Hwen he enterd the 
hens, muther aset him about his absens. In 
hiz cul deliberat wa, he replld: woct doun 

tu the lln betwen us, and Mr. Worman tu se 
that the yug stoc hwidh ar runnig in that feld 
wer net llcli tu get over the fens intu hiz feld. 
Mwll J woz thar, i fhot thigz did net luc lit at 
Mr. Wornian’z hens and f concluded that f 
wud go over tu se if J cud render eni assist ans. 
Az ^ woz cllmig the fens, the Rev. Jozef Rlt* 
cold tu me and advlzd me not tu go tu the 


*Tli6 Rev. Jozef Hit livd lit in sit ev nebur Wornian’z and 
net BOO yardz awe. 


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hous, az the had colera thar. ^ asct him hen 
hs lieu that ther wez celera in the hens. Hs sed 
that Dr. Fel ev Lambertvil had just cum from 
the liens and that he had just bin teiii) him 
that Jacob Worman wez sic ev celera and 
that he wud net liv twenti for ours, and that 
ol had better sta awe frem the heus. J asct 
him if he had bin over tu vizit Mr. Worman. 
He sed he had net and that no uther nabur 
had bin, and that no uther naburz wer goig, 
that ther iz tu mudh rise tu run. J told him 
that if Mr. Worman wez sic ev celera, perhaps 
he neded mudh nursirj and perhaps hiz wlf and 
children wer tird and neded sum wun tu assist 
them; and J gest i wud go over and se if ther 
wez enifhiij that J cud du for them. Hwen ^ 
get tu the heus, J found Mr. Worman veri 
mudh prostrated and sufferii] veri seveih, and 
realli fer that he wil dl ev this alment. — Hwet 
macs the matter wurs — he iz so terrifld and 
fhii)cs he wil shurli di — and the Doctor haz told 
him that he cannot get wel. Hiz foes ar alon; 
^ ges 5 had better go bae and help them nurs 
him, — he iz so larj and hevi tu lift that tha 
tied help ol ev the tun. And if t am net at 
horn this evenii), yu and the dhildren had bet- 
ter du the dhorz for tlie nit — for * shal net 
cum awe unles he iz better than he wez hwen 
* left him. — But * ges yu had better get me a 


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littul dinner befoi % go — I thigc Scud net st 
in that hous, — the stendh ov ths sic man iz 
oful and it iz in everi part gv ths hens.” 

Az muther prossded tu prspar hiz dinner 
she sed : u Iz ther no naburz thar?” Hs rs- 
plid: “No! notwun! Wilyam Bodln cam 
doun tn ths ri vijlet and hallud tu Mrs. Wor- 
man tu lern hen Mr. Worman woz, and Dom- 
ini Rlt cam nsr snuf tu hall ta tu wun ov tbs 
beiz tu no h wether Mr. Worman woz sti! 
livig ” 

“ Wei ! ar yu not afrad dnu yu wil tec ths 
dizsz?” mu ther asct. 

ma tae ths dizsz and dl ov it ” woz hiz 
rspll, u but I wud rather di on dtpi renderig 
hwot ad I can tu allsviat ths sufferig ov ml 
nabur, than tu liv a fhouzand ysrz in ceuardis, 
rsmisnes or infami. Mr. Worman haz livd 
lisr bl us in pss and in onur, thsz meni ysrz, 
and hs sdial not d! alon, nor without attenslhun, 
hwll I liv.” 

Father at hiz dinner, rsturnd tu nabur Wor- 
man’z and remand in ths rum with him til hs 
woz ded. In ths svenig, about 10 o’cloc, Dr. 
Fel vizited hiz pasfoent, sed hs wud bs a corps 
bsfor midnlt, advlzd ths relativz tu sscgr an 
undertacer at wuns, and az sun az ths bodi 
woz llfles, dspozit it in ths grav, and prosed at 


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wuns tu disinfect ig the hous. The coffin woz 
immediatli orderd, Mr. Worman did sun after 
midnit, and wurd woz carrid by my fattier and 
ths dhildren gv Mr. Worman’z famili tu a feu 
Gv the naburz ttiat Jacob Worman vvud bs 
interd at ths Semeteri at Saudi Ridj about 2-30 
o’cloc A. M. ov Mun da. Q fsn ov us wer at 
ths Semsteri on tim and renderd bwot ad ws 
cud in diggig ttis gray, et cetera , and bl starlit 
ws plast ttis bodi ov ths ded in its final restig 
plas. 

In ol hiz waz, father vvoz veri sistematie and 
veri temperat. Hiz vitalz earn at appointed 
tiinz — and it woz difficult tu tempt him tu et, 
even frut, bstwsu mslz. At ths tabul, hs at 
ths planest fud and ov it, a grat varisti. IIs 
never allond a favurit disth tu tempt him tu 
inordinat stig, nor an invitig cup, tu tempt him 
tu inordinat drigcig. Hs never cwestyund 
hvvether a dish vvoz savori, or over relisfhabul, 
but h wether it woz hoi sum, and hwetiier it woz 
suted tu him. And, I fhige that ths gild lielfh, 
strog mind and jsnial spirits that hs haz enjoid 
non thez 84 ysrz iz oig tu hiz temperat habits 
and frugal waz. 0v ol ths virtgz, Temper- 
ans, in point ov helfh, happines, dhsrfulnes, 
and a capasiti tu enjoi ths fhigz ov this wurld, 
and inshur inherit ans ov ths lif hvvidh iz tu 
cum, rswordz ths most ridhli her votariz. 


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And, 1 hav seldum sen eni uther wun hu haz 
sherd so larjli the censecwensez ev the practis 
9 v this virtu az ml fattier. Hwll 1 am deli and 
eurli engejd in prgscribig for thoz hu, bl shgr 
self-abus, at the tebul, hav contracted ttioz el- 
ments hwidh the wont mg tu col Rumatizum, 
or hi sum uther gufenic, or far fetdht nem, ap- 
perentli tu cuver up thg rgzults ev ttlal , visez, 
or cgp mg from telig them that ther alz ar thg 
shur and inevitabul rgzult ev ther gtirj and 
drigcig; and hwll 1 sg this wun humpt over a 
belli fild with hlpertrofid beuelz, thg rgzult ev 
self abus at stir) ; that wun, stocig about lie a 
wociij per ev tegz, en account ev dizgz, thg 
shgr rgzult ev vis at thg tebul and fulish habits 
in dres; and thg uther wun, limpii) first en wun 
fut, and then en thg uther, with a scenl in thg 
fes at everi step — cemplenig non ev thg ng- 
jeint, neu ev thg hip, lieu ev thg agcuh and 
neu ev thg ^holderz, elboz or hac ; — gdh and ol 
cemplenig ev Previdens, and upbredig thg 
Olmlti, bgcoz thg afferz ev men ar so unferli 
divided, and tu ther sher folz so mudh mizeri; 
hwen ol ther mizeri iz onli thg rgzult ev sleveri 
tu a morbid appgtlt, and a propensiti tu get 
thg most out ev Ilf bl gtig — apperentli thg onli 
sors ev cumfurt or enjeiment the hav, — J sg 
ml father, hu dgrig ol thg ygrz ev hiz Ilf haz 
wurct hard at farmig, and hu stil, in hiz eti- 


forth yer, duz a gud enest de’z wurc— mor 
than iz dun bl the averej laborer — az erect az 
a statu, and az cvvic, and az fre, and az dec- 
strus and az gresful in ol hiz miavments, az 
the averej man iz at twenti-fiv. Sertinli, it pez 
tu liv virtuusli, and tu cej) ol the appetlts in 
subjecsfhun tu the wil, directed b! a holsum 
judjment. For non, az trial i az at the tlm 
“the parabul ev the talent” wez ritten, everi 
wun iz respensibul for the saf cepig and die 
impruvment ov the talent intrusted tu him. 
Bven tu-de the talent iz tacen from him hu 
duz net irnpruv it and iz given tu the wun 
hu haz resevd ten talents and haz impruvd 
them vvel, so that he hu haz resevd rnudh and 
haz bin fathful tu hiz dharj me hav in gret 
abundans; and he hu haz resevd the sem 
number, or a les number, and haz badli yuzd 
die littul he haz had committed tu him, me hav 
nun at ol. In no feld ev lif iz this parabul 
better egzemplifid than in that ev fizical and 
mental helfh. 

Hwll Benjamin Larisun vvez earful tu liv 
virtuusli, he medduld littul with the vlsez ev 
uther foes, and left them entlrli alon tu du az 
the plezd. 

The folloijQ littul stori illustrets rneni ev the 
trats peculyar tu him, in this respect* 1 1 wen 
about 64 yerz old, he sutferd hemoraj ev the 


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stumac, the rezult ev an accident hwidh eccurd 
in tliis wa. Wun cold da at Lambertvil he 
hot an oil barrel tu serv az a swil barrel. It 
woz sumhwot besmerd witli oil and the clercs 
in the stor semd afezd ev it. It woz rold out 
upon the pavment, and then tu get it intu hiz 
wagon, the sldz ov hwidh wer fulli az hi az a 
man’z lied, woz a considerashun. So, tu fre 
them from gettig thar handz and clothz soild, 
he lifted the case bl holdig tu the dhinz ov the 
tu endz, svvuij it a tim or tu and thru it with 
die intenshun that it wild go cler ov die sld- 
bord intu the wagon. But, sumliou, the case 
hit upon the sid-bord and bounded bac. He 
cot it befor it tudht the pevment; and then, 
witii a mor vigor us swig, thru it cler ov the 
sid-bord intu the wagon. He semd tu du the 
wurc ezi and suspected no il consecwensez. 
But, befor he recht hom, he felt that he woz 
groig wee. Az hiz sun Jon woz with him, he 
drov the tern; and hwen the arrlvd hom, Jon 
tuc cer ov the tern hwil father went intu the 
lions. Az he did not fel lie etig supper, he re- 
tard erli, — a fhig unyuzqal for him. Befor 
midnlt he woz aweet bl a fSlig ov e warn i sillies 
at die stumac. Sun he woz sic and trlig tu 
vomit. Qfter several sever efforts, lie sucseded 
in vomitig, in clots, sumfhig mor than a cwort 
ov blud. Dr. Jorj H. Larisun woz hastili cold, 


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and tu a fsu dosez ov ths asstet ©v led, die 
hemorej sunysldip; but hiz pesfhent wgz gret- 
li egzosted from die gret los* ov blud and die 
ecstraordineri contract ip effort ov dis stumac 
nesesseri tu brec uj) the clotted blud, and sject 
it bl vomit ip. 

For a tlm ths ces lijct doutful; but in a fsu 
dez, rsacsfhun foiled, lis bsgan tu impruv, and 
bs enjoid a joc, or a littui fun, olniost az wel 
az ever. 

Wun de, bsfor hs bsgan tu sit up, bs sed 
tu ms: “Cornsl! Sins 5 bav bin sic S bav 
not bad a dhu ov tobacco, and 4 don’t crev 
eni — iz dier not sumfhip rop about that?” — 4 
rsplld : “No; hwen men ar sic, die seldum 
wont tobacco.” At this bs laft a littui, and 
nudiip mor woz sed. 

Q fsu dez leter hs sed: “Cornel! i bav 
no dszlr for tobacco — and ^ diipc it strenj.” 
4 rsplld: “ Hwen yu get wel and yu agen as- 
sure yur regular habits, yu wil relisfh yur to- 
bacco, az ov yor. Yu nsd not fsr that this 
spel ov si cues iz go ip t u dsbar yu from ths 
cumfurts ov dhiaip tobacco. It yuzpalli tecs 
mor than a spel ov sicnes tu brec a man ov 
dhuip.” Hs laft a littui at mi rspll and for 
ths tlm ths subject ended. But a fsu dez leter 
hs agen cold ml attenshun t u ths fact that hs 


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had not yet felt the nsd ov a dhu ©v tobacco. 
Herupon muther, hu had herd hiz former stet- 
ments rsspectig this matter, sed: “Ben! yu 
nsd not fsr that yn ar goii] tu liaz yur relisfh 
for tobacco; yn wil wont it sun snuf.” 

Tu this he rspild: “Wei! the cweri iz that 
a man slhud so gretli “hagcer” after it liwen 
hs iz wel and then liwen lie iz sic and nsdz 
sum stimulus, hs duz not wont it at ol. 1 
ges it iz not veri gud for wun eni-hou, and if 
wun can get alog without it hwen sic, IE thigc 
lie can hwen hs iz wel.” 

“Wel then” sed IE, “du yu propoz tu cwit 
ths yus ov tobacco entlrli?” 

Tu this hs rspild: “Jz it better for ms tu 
yuz it, or not tu yuz it?” 

1 rsjilld : “It iz better tor yu not tu yuz 
it.” 

Hs sed: “Wel, then, IE wil not yuz it; if 
it iz a bad practis, IE wil cwit it.” 

Hs sed no mor tu ms about ths tobacco hwJl 
sic. Ov cors, I nsu hvvot cind ov man hs 
woz — that hs olwez accomplish t hiz purpus. 
“But,” thot I, “if yu attempt tu cwit ths yus 
ov tobacco, yu wil enter into a worfer with 
yurself that wil trl both judjment and wil mlt- 
ili. In this worfer yu wil not bs centendig 
agenst oppozisfhun from without, but agenst 


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an ensrni within ; it’s yurself that yu’l hav tu 
cegcer, — and ws’l ss hou yu wil dm it.” 

The last tlm, dig-ig that sienes, 1 vizited him, 
az 1 drov up tu ths hitdhig post, lie woz sloli 
cumig from the barn. Hi ths Urn 1 had fasend 
mi hors, hs had cum up and had begun tu toe, 
in hiz jenial, ])lezant we. Az 1 had so ©fen 
sen him dm bsfor, hwen plezantli and spiritedli 
engejd in cenverseshun, hs drm from hiz pecct 
ths old stsl tobacco bocs, that 1 had sen him 
handul, from ths tTm 4 began tu no him. 1 
woz not surprlzd, 1 nsu sumthig ov ths fors 
ov habit — 1 wetdht him, and cud hard 1 i sup- 
pres lafter. But, hs did not open ths bocs tu 
tec a dhm — az 1 had ©lwez sen him dm bsfor; 
i listed, hs held it flatwlz bstwsn ths thirm and 
middul figger ov hiz left hand, and cept turnig 
it, or revel vig it, 5 mlt sa, with ths indees fig- 
ger ov hiz rlt hand. — This manner ov rsvolvig 
ths bocs woz an old, old habit. 

Hwen we wer redi tu go intm ths heus, hs 
plest ths bocs in hiz pocet, — without taeig a 
dhm. Hwll tocig in ths lions wun ov ths ne- 
burz cold. Its woz hard 1 i ssled hwen hs sed : 
“Ben, 1 wild fhage yn for a dhm ov tobacco.” 
Plsrupon, out cem ths old stsl tobacco bees— 
hid tu ths brim, hspt up, pact deun, shecen 
tngether and run nig over — scriptural mezhig* — 
and hs ©herd it tu ths nabur in a veri dhsrfnl 


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scriptural wa. Tlis nabur tuc hiz dhu, clozd 
the bees and banded it bac, — after tbs custum 
©v tobacco dhuerz. The bees w©z revel vd be- 
twen the ttium and figger a feu tlmz, and re- 
turnd tu the pecet — without tacig a dhia. 

Hwen 4 vvez redi tu go,' and woz saig “gud 
bi” tu niuther, az 4 had olwaz sen him d u en 
similar ©ccazhunz, he dna out the old stel to- 
bacco bees, — but fd Id tu tec a dhu, — but the 
rattier stud revolvig it bet wen ttium and fin- 
ger, — and stud so duig az 4 drov awe. 

Sum wees later he vizited me, and az Jacob 
Scene, Cornelius Fisfher, Peter Yug and Izacar 
Hogland, old accwantansez — hu bad bin boiz 
tugether, had herd ov hiz sever sicnes and neu 
that he woz at that tim at ml plas, cold at ml 
effis tu sa, a IIou du yu du?” and sho, in a 
soshal wa, thar regard for him. 1 lard li had 
the “Hen do vu du” gon round hwen wun ov 
them sed: “Ben! Giv me a dhu ov tobacco.”* 
Forth cam the old, stel bees, fild til it cud hold 
no mor, edh ov ttie gests tuc a dhu, and it woz 
returnd tu the pocet. Mirthful toe tlod a man — 
yu’d hav thot tha wer a set ©v boiz in thar 

*Ther wez sumthig in this ecspresliun that S never fulli cem- 
preliended, — sumftiig that related tu the afferz ev die erli lif ev 
several men Ini gra up with mi father, and liu assosliieted with 
him. 3? efen notist hwen die met, heuever much tobacco ecli 
wun had, sum wun must be dund for tobacco — and then the 
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lenz, — folloz hu yet lieu nuftiig ov tbs cerz ov 
lit- Cornelius Fisher, buz vois for sigig wez 
net better than that ev a cro, began tu si g a 
sgi) entltuld “Pritti Salli ” — a cempozishun 
fabricated, IE ges, bl tliez veri f'elloz with utherz 
no dent, tu cGmmemorat the ecsploits gv wun 
Salli lua wgz the wlf gv sum fello, bu in tber 
beihud, cept, a hotel at Neii Mareet, N. J. 
The sog abounded in wit and yumur gv a veri 
lafabul elnd. Fisher’z lmtzic wgz not endhant- 
ig, but suniheu he marsfhald the wurdz alog in 
ezi order, and sumhou he so oenii enterd into 
tiie spirit ov the sog that we ol joind in a harti 
lal : — and az the sgi] wgz m\ tu me, and then az 
die diot that this diiij wgz wun gv the perps- 
trashunz ov thez men hwll yet boiz — 4 laft til 
IE cud not tel a bottul from a buc or the nied- 
isin cas from the windo. 

At dinner, hwen 4 pord die mile, J did not 
por a goblet ov it for mi fadier, az he had nev- 
er, sins 4 neii him, druijc mile. But bl the tlm 
4 had set the pidher asld, he sed: “Yu did not 
giv me eni mile!” “No!” 4 replld, “4 did not 
giv yu eni, bseoz J thot yn never drage it.” 
Therupon 4 began tu por him a goblet ov 
mile — ov hwidh, hwen handed tu him, he drage 
copiusli. 

Az he sat the goblet upon die tabul he sed: 
“For meni yerz, 4 cud not drige mile, it semd 


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tu prodgs dispepsia; but sins 1 hav cvvit dho- 
ii) tobacco, it semz tu agre with ms and I am 
rather fond ev it, and ©fen drigc it insted ov 
ceffe, az I ss yu olwcz do. I ges if it iz 
better for yu tu absten from the yus gv ceffe 
and tu drigc mile insted, it iz better for ms t i 
do so to; at the lsst. I find it so.” 

Herupen I sed: “Did yu se that yu had 
ewit dhoig tobacco?” 

Ids rsplid: “Yes, 1 hav net dhod tobacco 
sins 1 wgz sic.” 

1 sed: “Did I net se yn hav sum tobacco 
tu-de?” 

He replld: “Perhaps yu did; but 1 hav 
net dhod eni tu-de.” • 

$ sed: “Wei! ifyu don’t dho tobacco, hwi 
do yn carri it?” 

He replld: “Wei! 1 hav carrid it sins ! 
wgz a bei, and ol ml acewentansez no that I 
hav dhod it for meni yerz; and hwen old ac- 
ewentansez met me, theefen asc me for a dho, 
and I wud net be so men az tu rsfiiz tu giv 
them a dho gv tobacco.” 

I sed: “Don’t yu hav a llcii) for tobacco 
eni mor?” 

He replld: “O yes! it iz the first fliiij I 
wont in the mornig hwen I arlz! It iz the 
first fhig I wont after edh mel. llwenever I 


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se it, it provocs ail ardent dezlr for it, Jhwen- 
ever I her eni wun spec ev it, I gretli fel a 
creviij for it — in fact I wont it ol the tun — but 
net so badli neu az hwen $ first cwit yuzig it. 

I sed: “Wei! don’t yu fliigc yn vvil get 
tu yuziij itagen?” 

He replld : “No! I ges net. It iz ev no 
benefit tu me; I ges $ vvil lev it alon. It iz a 
filtlii practis eni-heu, and hwen wun iz yuzip 
it, lie duz net se hen filthi he iz.” 

Sins the dot ev the abuv celocwi, twenti 
yerz hav past, and Benjamin Larisun, in ol 
this tlm, haz net tecen a dhm ev tobacco — and 
yet, in ol tfiis tlm, no old accwentans haz asct 
him for a dhu ev tobacco and haz bin refuzd, 
becoz he haz cwit dhuii)! IN" o! he iz net men 
en uf for that! 

I mensdiun the abuv ces becoz, mor espesfh- 
alli, ev die meral curej recwlrd tu cwit this 
habit. — Inded ther ar but feu men lnaz curej 
iz adecwet tu the tasc. H. S. Grant manejd 
Hie sej ev Yicsburg, and at Ridhmend, forst 
Jeneral Le and ol hiz armi into a surrendri; 
but he himself, for wont ev meral curej, sur- 
renderd tu the peuer ev tobacco, and did pre- 
maturli. Nor iz diis the onli ces en record 
that demenstrets that it tecs mor meral curej 
and mor jeneralsfhip tu ceijoer an innet tenden- 




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si tu vis or tu stand eurejusli agenst die panel* 
ev an accwird visflius habit, than tu manej ar- 
rniz, tu cagcer a fo in annz, or tu subjuget a 
bellijerent pspul. TIs iz die hero lua caijcerz 
himself, subdijz the ensmiz within, li berets 
himself from die fhroldum ev vis and visfhus 
practisez, and in the enjeiment ev hiz fran- 
chiz, delz tu himself and tu hiz nebur hwet- 
ever eenspirz tu lnpnau happines, and lutman 
prog res. 


Mi father, lie scz, began the yus ev tobacco, at tile ej ev 10 
yerz, az an anodin tu a deced tilth, tile onli tilth he liaz lest. 
At eni tim be baz net yuzd in cliuiij mor than an eunsa wee. 
Hwen yui] he sez he yuzd tu smoc sumtimz, — hwen aset tu du 
so fcir cumpani’z sec. But if never so him smoc. And i never 
so him tec az a beverej, ether hwiski or win. Unrig the cold 
dez ev winter, hwen leg at the barn thresliig, ® hav non him tu 
diigcsider, efen with a littul nutmeg or jinjer. Hiz rellans wez 
menli upen met, potetoz and bred. He et veri littul puddig or 
sudh thigz ev eni cind. He drage veri littul ceffe andjes te. 


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1 Jorj Holcum, 


2 Lusi An, 

Untu 

3 Cornelius Wilsun. 

Benjamin Larisun 

4 Meri Catherin, 

and 

5 Andru Butterfos, 

Hanna An Holcum 

6 Sera Levina, 

wer born 

7 Jen Bremer, 


8 Hanna Ellen, 


9 Cornelia Jen, 


CHAPTER VII 

JORJ H. LARISUK. 

Jorj H. Larisun wez born Jan. 4fh., 1831. 
At an erli ej he wez interested in mecanics, 
and accemplisflit mudh az a bei mecanie in the 
we ev bildig woter-hwelz, bei milz and the lie. 
Dqrig hiz dhildhud, lie handuld tulz wel — and 
biz assosihiets fhot he wud evelv intu a mecan- 
ic or enjiner. But, let in biz tsnz, lie bscem 
mor fenjj ev bucs, and, folig intu tbs handz ev 


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an ecsellent tedher, (wun Jen 13. C. Benz hu 
tot at Van Dola’z,) at the ej ev seventen, lie 
gev olmost ol liiz lezhur tu the studi ev math- 
ematics. • He sun accwlrd a reputasfhun for a 
nelej ev arithmetic, menshureshun, and natur- 
al filesofi, in the studi ev hvvidh lie semd ferli 
infatuated, — and tu the purdhas ev sudh hues 
az treted thez subjects, he spent mudh, if net 
ol, ev hiz ch&nj. 

$ wel remember a littul insident, die narra- 
shun ev hvvidh wil sho sumthig ev hiz zel tu 
accwlr nelej at that ej. Tlier wez no buc-stor, 
at that tlin, in Lambertvil, nor in Fleming un, 
and hues, ecseptig die Blbul, Cumli’z Speler, 
die old Igglisfh Reder, the Introducshun (a 
reder) and Pic’s Arithmetic, wer seers — sel- 
dum sen in the neburhnd in hvvidh we wer 
rezd, — and hwen bot tu be brot dier, die wer 
purdhast in Trentun, Filadelda or Neu Yore. 
And in dioz dez, scul bucs lasted several jen- 
eresfhunz. I yuzd die Arithmetic that servd 
mi fadier, ml brutiier Jorj, ml sister Lusi, and 
tiien handed it over tu ml sister necst yugger, 
better, ev cors, than it wez hwen it cem intu 
ml liandz. In dioz dez, bucs — scul bucs es- 
pesfhalli — olwez get better b! yuzig, and wo 
tu the pupil’z bac hu derd tu seil or ter a 
scul-buc that hiz father, or hiz muther, or hiz 
grandfather or hiz gret-grandfather had yuzd. 


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Jorj had nsd, hs thot, ov a uq hue (Bonseas- 
ul’z Mensfhuraslhun.) Hiz tsdher fhot so tu, 
and az it wild giv him sum sclo tu hav it sed 
that hs had a pupil studiirj Mensfhuresfhun, if 
dent net that hs urjd ths boi tu get tbs hue. 
Ths “dhanj” had bin savd up, after ths man- 
ner in hwidh boiz sav muni, and ths tlm had 
cum tu mac ths purdhas. Ths first fhiij J nsu 
about ths matter, wuu bitter cold winter morn- 
ing, ws wer 011 eur we tu scul and olmost tu 
ths scul-hous, hwen Jorj sed tu ms: “Non, J 
wil tae ml sfhar gv ths dinner out gv ths bascet 
and put it in mT pocet, and tlien yu tac ths 
bascet and go on tu scul: S am not goig tu 
scul tu-da — i am goirj tu Trentun tu bl ms a 
buc. $ wil trl tu get bac tu ths scul-hous hi 
ths tlm, scul iz out, but if S du not get bac In 
that tlm, du net wat for ms — go horn and tel 
our foes hwar d hav gen — d wil cum horn az 
sun az d can.” 

Trentun woz twenti thrs milz awe, and a 
hoi seventsn ysrz old cud not woe from Van 
Dola’s Scul-hous tu a buc-stor in tiiat siti, 
purcdias a buc and woe bac bstwsn 9 o’eloe 
in ths mornig and d o’eloc in ths afternun — 
sven if hs had hiz dinner in hiz pocet and a 
cold da tu invigorat hiz step and hiz appstlt. 
Accordigli after scul 5 went horn alon. Inc.wi- 
ri about Jorj woz mad. Ov cars, 5 told. 


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Sum arjzlst i vvoz areuzd, ev cars, but flier wez 
but wun fli i ij tu dij. Toordz ten o’clee that 
nit Jorj cem in, mudh after ths old sort, gat a 
lit tul scold irj, az lie deutles ecspected — but, hs 
had hiz buc. Muther get him sum supper; 
hs et hartili and vvs went tu bed. $ du net no 
lieu hs felt — tlrd I eespect; but I wel rsrnern- 
ber lieu f felt — proud that I had a bru flier that 
wez mad ev that elnd ev metal, — ev ths nobil- 
iti ev mind that impeld him tu woe 46 nillz for 
a tecst-buc — rather than run ths rise ev groig 
u i > in ignorans ev a yusful slens. 

From infansi olmost, hs luvd militeri tac- 
tics; and dqriq dhildhud and erli lnanhud, this 
pasfhun wez induljd tu a dsgrs that attracted 
much attensJhun. 11 wen a scialbei hs card 
littul for ths sports jeneralli praetist hi beiz; 
but hs yiazhqalli manejd tu hav sum ev ths 
beiz enlisted into a militeri cumpani hwidh 
sun bseem pritti wel drild. Ofen hs wild hav 
ol ths beiz in scial under militeri drib Ov 
eors, hs wez olwaz ths ca.pt in and did most ev 
ths mansuverir). 

In erli manliud hs organizd a militeri cum- 
pani at Serjents-vil ; ev this, at first, I fhiije 
pelisi dsmanded that hs bs but lqtenant. But, 
afterwardz hs bscem ca.pt in; and in teciq hiz 
cumpani tu neburiij villejez, hs sian aweeend 
a spirit for ths y uni form and militeri tactics. 


Sian militari campaniz wer organize! in varias 
parts ©v the c©nnti. Thsz campaniz, ©y cors, 
lie sun forrnd intia a Brigad. At first hs w©z 
n©t a mounted ©ffiser, bat tu mac tbs Brigad 
a sucses, it sian bscam nesessari for him tu 
be up©n tbs saddul, and sun lie ■ commanded 
tbs Brigad. Perhaps lie haz held ol the ©ffisez 
incident tu a Brigad — I no hs haz bin cem- 
mishund a Curnel and a Brigadsr Jeneral, 
and hs disdharjd ths dipiz ©v thsz ©ffisez with 
addres and with mudh credit. Indsd az a mil- 
itari persunaj, hs wozolwaz effishent and pop- 
ular; bat az hs gru older, and bscam bardend 
with ths carz insident tu bizi Ilf, hs partisipat- 
ed les in militeri tactics and wor biz yuniform 
les ©fen. 

In ths Qt um ©v 1851 hs went tu Nsu Hav- 
en, C©n. Hs that* enterd a scul manajd bl wan 
Jorj Bee with, a man selsbrated for mafhsmat- 
ical nolej. Hwll thar hs prosecuted manli ths 
stadi ©v maffismatics, with ths intensfhun ©v 
bscumiq a sivil enjinsr. Bat hwen hs had 
mad himself acc wanted wifii thoz brandhez 
yuzhualli stadid bl students ©v enjinsriq, hs 
contemplated a regular Cellej Cors, and tu 
sadh a cors, hs began tu giv hiz attenshan. 
Hwen teliq ms hiz intensfhun tu prspar for 
c©llej, I sed : “ Yu yuzd tu toe that yu intend- 

ed tu be an enjinsr — hw! bay yu dhanjd yur 


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cors.” — Iliz rspll WGZ : “Eni Jae can be an 
enjiner — and the man hu haz but a nelej ©v 
mathematics haz onli a wun-sided educasliun, 
and iz illi fitted for die grat dipiz ©v Ilf. — 1 in- 
tend tu fit mlself for a broder feld ©v yusful- 
nes than enjinerig efierz. — Enjinerig wil du 
for thoz hu hav n©t brenz enuf tu fello enifhig 
els, — it iz but a smol biznes at the best — tu 
trlflig for me.” 

Accordigli, in Nov, 1852 lie enterd the Ac- 
ademic department ©v the Ynniversiti at Lnis- 
burg, Pa. (n©n non az The Bucnel Ynniversiti) 
at hwidh he remand until Mardh 1853. Dqrig 
file folloig flv munfhs he tot scul in the bildig 
non in thoz daz az Van Dola’z district Scul- 
lions, — file bildig in hwidh he had bin tot, with 
file ecsepslhun ©v a term or tu, dgrig hiz dhlld- 
lmd. Her, az a tedher, he becam at wuns, veri 
popular — so mudh so tiiat file h©ns w©z fild 
wifii pupilz az it never had bin befor and az it 
never haz bin sins. For him tu guvern a 
scul, woz ezi. Hiz mefhud wez that wun that 
never fdlz tu brig sucses. It consists in so 
prezentig file subjects tot that the matter ©v 
edh lessun iz mor entertanig tu the pupil z 
than ar eni uther subjects with hwidh tha can 
be engajd, and in so mezhurig out tn them for 
file intervalz betwen resitaslhun a cwentiti ©v 
wurc that absorbz ol ©v fiiar tlm, — fiius levig 


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no tlm for devlzig misdhif, or plot tirj trubul. 
Tu govern, hs neded no hwip — ol ferd tu of- 
fend him, bscoz ol luvd him. Tu get redi tu 
resit wez die self-urjent biznes with everi pu- 
pil — from the lest tu the larjest. 

For a log hvvll prior tu this event, ther had 
bin faesfhunz in die district, dissenshunz and 
cvvarrelz; and hwen die Trust ez offerd him die 
seial, he did not regard the ©ffis ov tedher in 
that district dezlrabul; nor did hiz frendz so 
consider it. But a littul urjig on die ]>art ©v 
wun Jorj Sharp indict him tu acsept die offer 
and tu attempt tu elevat the standard ov edq- 
casbun thar. At first, but feu piipilz cam. 
This, ov cors, woz wel for him, az he had no 
ecsperiens, ether in tedhig or guvernig. He 
mad gud yus ov hiz tlm — spendig everi mo- 
ment ov the hoi at ©urz ov die da (the seial 
daz yuzd tu be at ©urz log) in organlzig, tedhig 
and drilig, until die feu that wer widi him be- 
cam fhuroli awacend tu die butiz ov lernig, 
accwlrd an affecsfhun for him, and a luv for 
seial. Tliez, ov cors, az zelus pqpilz ever do, 
toct at horn and abrod, onli ov liwot tha wer 
lernig at scul and ©v die Tedher hu tot diem. 
Lie a contajon, hiz infigens spred thru the dis- 
trict and far beyond it, the children e.veri-hwar 
wonted tu go tu scul, thar parents consented, 
ol llet die mi tedher, facsbunz forgot, for the 


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tim, filer fqdz, ol wer yum ted in Jorj, the scul- 
Iigus woz fild In tbs ecstent diat mi sets wer 
plest liwer-ever the cud be — in die Tlz and 
even in the dorwe. 

But, in September 1853, at die beginnii) gv 
the Academic yer, he returnd tu die Yuniver- 
siti at Luisburg, at hwidh he stud until the 
vecesliun in the sprirj gv 1854. 

In Qpril felloir) he enterd the preparatori 
scial gv Madisun Yuniversiti at Ilamiltun, 
1ST. Y. Her he remend until Mardh 1855. 

In Qpril 1855 he began the studi gv Medi- 
sin with the Hgii. Sam lie 1 Lilli, M. D. # , gv Lam- 
bert vil, Y. J. In October he began tu attend 
biz first cors evleetiirz at die Pensilvenia Cel- 
lej gv Medisin, in Filadelfia, Pa. In October 
1856 lie matriculated in the Medical Depart- 
ment gv the Yuniversiti gv Pensilvenia, in 
Filadelfia, Pa. In Mardh 1858 die Yuniver- 
siti gv Pensilvenia canferd upen him the degre 
gv M. D. In die Fol gv 1858 he settuld, in 
the practis gv medisin, at Doliptun, Bircs 
Ceunti, Pa.; in the winter gv 1859 he nnavd 
tu Lambertvil, Y. J., at hwidh pies he haz 
ever sins centimid tu practis medisin. 

Az a fizislhan, he haz olwez bin papular, 
efficient and bizi. He haz, from die first, had 
the cerz gv a veri ecstensiv and a veri verid 


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practis. In the erliysrz 9v hiz practis hiz sue- 
ses in Diffheria, Scarlet Fever and Tlfeid Fe- 
ver wez maret. In Obstetrics, he haz leg bin 
bl far die most popular ev ol the fizisfhanz in the 
sentral part ev Heii Jerzi. Dqrig the past 
twenti-fiv yerz, ther ar veri feu hu hav attended, 
in eni yer, hat the number ev casez ev Obstet- 
rics that he haz, dqrig die sum peried. 

Hiz peslheiits inveriabli consider him a frend, 
and toe with him with a familiariti that iz sel- 
dum sen betwen dzisdian and pasfhent. Hiz 
simpafhi for sufferig hqmaniti, hwidh haz olwaz 
bin the dominant element ev hiz caracter, iz ez- 
ili arenzd, and hwen arenzd, manz him for eni 
emerjensi. His peuer ev endqrans iz gret and 
hiz wilignes tu go in respens tu a profeslhunal 
col iz seldum ecwald. He iz never cold tia 1st 
at nit, nor tu erli in the mornig — the tlm that 
demandz hiz profeslhunal servis iz die acsepta- 
bul tlm for him tu render it. Lie the rest ev 
the Larisunz, he lies muni, and lies tu be pad 
for hiz profesthunal servisez; but, on the ac- 
count ev hiz inabiliti tu pa a fizishan’z fe, no 
pur mortal, in ewest ev medical servis, ever 
ferz disappointment in necig at the dor ev the 
effis ev Jorj H. Lari sun. 

Qleg with hiz practis he haz efen tot. And, 
from hiz effis hav gen meni wel trend yug men. 
In tedhig, he haz net olwez cenflnd himself tu 


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medical subjects. In hiz effis, sum hav prose- 
cuted the studi ov die larjgwejez and liav pre- 
perd for Collej. 

Jorj haz olwez bin inudli interested in poli- 
tics. Az a rial, he luiz acted with die Demo- 
crat parti; but tu this ther ar sum ecsepshunz. 
He vvoz activ in the Grenbac parti, and dqriij 
the egzistans ov that parti, he add rest mas- 
metirjz in nerli everi si t i and larj villej in Nen 
Jerzi. And he vvoz ofen invited tu addres 
metigz in verius parts ov Neu Yore, Pensil- 
venia, &c., &c. 

At the November elecsfhun ov 1878 he woz 
a candidet for Coggres on the Grenbac ticet, 
and resevd 4111 vots. 

Jorj H. Larisun vvoz baptlzd intu die Bap- 
tist Church ov Sandi Pij Mardh 1853. From 
that tim he haz bin non az a zelus wurcer in 
the coz ov Grist. Az a leman, he vvoz olwez 
effislhent, and temdwidi projects for st art ir) np 
interests, and with plans and mezhips for sup- 
port^ thoz febul interests, that, hi the meni, 
ar, tu ofen, neglected or abandond. Ov hiz 
ernirjz he haz given mudh tu the support ov fe- 
bul interests. 

Hiz caracter az a Cristyan, iz sumhwot 
sfhon bi the historian lua preperd die histori ov 
the Solberi Baptist Churdh, Bugs Co., Pa.: 


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“Frem 1854 tu this period [September 30th, 1806] onli nin 
liacl bin baptlzd. Defh, remiivalz, strlf and distracsliun bad 
neu so redgst the membership, that the prer sircul wez entirli 
ctbandend, the Sabbath-scul dismist, and the beus ev Ged cen 
tlngd tu be lect for the spas ev mar than fhre yerz. So lament- 
ctbul wez this stafc ev fhigz, that at the instil) ev die North 
Filadelfia Assoshieshun in 1869, die Church wez proneunst a 
corps, and egzecgtorz wer appointed tu tec cer for its wurldli 
estet in beliaf ev the Jeneral Assoshieshun. 

Net noil) die acshun ev the Assoshieshun, and at die veri tlm ev 
the r efforts tu dispoz ev the Church property. Dr. Jorj H. Lari- 
sun, then a decen ev the First Baptist Church ev Lambertvil, 
N. J. , a practisig fizishan, resident ev that siti, vizited the pies, 
and asct permisliun tu brig suppliz for that forsecen pulpit. 
This he did regqlarli and at liiz on ecspens, frem October 10th, 
1869, til die felloig November 14tli. Then, felig tu procgr sup- 
pliz, at cost and disadvantej, he tuc the pulpit himself for tile 
first en that de, ‘hwicli he had leg felt adixti,’ and tu twenti fhre 
persunz prezent preclit frem Acts xvii: 3 — ‘ This Jzsvs hum 5 
prech untu yu iz Grist.” For the j^er tu cum, Brudier Larisun 
regular! i preclit tu this pepul everi u ther Sabbath, and tooidz 
the cloz ev tile yer, everi Sabbath mornig and evenig til liiz ceg- 
gregcshun ecseded wun hundred, havig sustend regular met- 
igz for prer, and conducted a gud Sabbafh-scul. With thez 
prospects, Bruther Larisun cold Brther E. C. Rom in tu ed him 
in a seriz ev ecstra metigz, liwicli cemmenst Janice ri 1st, 1871, 
and centinqd til erli in March. Mor than wun hundred profest 
tu be hopfulli converted and sicsti-et wer baptlzd intu the fello- 
sliip ev the Church. At this period Bruther Larisun advizd the 
Church tu col a pastor lira cud givhiz hoi attensliun tu the w-urc 
directli en the feld. But after a regular metig, tu settul this im- 
portant cwestyun, theCemmitte informd him that the col tu the 
pastoret fel en him, and net an u ther. He acsepted the col and 
enterd en the wurc in cennecshun witii liiz ecstensiv practis ev 
medisin. Ther wez neu much tu du : a nix Church tu dissiplin, 
a ng, beus tu bild, sliedz and greundz tu tit up, etc. This yer 
tile old heus wez renovated at an ecspens ev over $2,000, cem- 
modius shedz erected, and gud ceggregeshunz regglarli assem- 
buld. 

This sain yer it becam evident that the pastor sliud be oixland, 


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and at die recwest and col ev the Church, Bru tiler Larisun wez 
ordend tu the gespel ministri Jamieri, 1872. In cennecsliun 
with everi utherwurc, Bru tiler Larisun fold net in cepig up ser- 
vis at important eut-steshunz, prinsipalli in that gudli rejun ev 
the Bucigham Yalli. For seven and a liaf yerz Bruther Lari- 
sun stud fefhfulli befor this pepul declerig die ceunsel ev Ged, 
and at tlmz engajig in speshal efforts. Dcpig die winter ev 
1875-6, sics wees feund him deli with his pepul her, besecliig 
Ged in behaf ev this cemnnpuiti. Tlie rezult wez mor than a 
scor rejeist in a neu feund Sevyur, and seventen wer baptizd in- 
tu the fellosliip ev the Church. 

In Me, 1876, Bruther Jemz Harl, a clas leder ev the Metho- 
dist 8piscopal Church, upen a profesliun ev hiz fcfh, wez bap- 
tizd intu the fellosliip ev this Church, and subseewentlieded the 
pastor in precliig at the eut-steshunz. Dipig Bruther Larisun’z 
pastoret ninti persunz wer baptizd, sicsten wer resevd bl letter, 
tu wer restord, and thre wer resevd lh ecsperiens ; an incres ev 
wun hundred and twenti-wun. In Gpril, 1877, Dr. Larisun clozd 
hiz pastoral leborz, hiz membership heuever, stil centimpg with 
the Church.” 

©v tills Church, he wez pastor at yerz. Dpr- 
ip the tlm he servd this Church, he puslht hiz 
we, predhip az he went, deun the pic toordFil- 
adelfia, — sumtimz predhip in a privet hens, 
sumtimz in a scul-heus, sumtimz in a wudz, 
sumtimz in an appul orchard. 

The territory herabeut wez orijinalli eccqpld 
hi CwGcerz. Hwen diG fel into the Hicslt and 
(Drthodecs disppt, Cwacerizm decllnd, and the 
pepul jeneralli becem irrelijus. Feu ministers 
ev uther deneminesfhunz venturd tu inved the 
district and predhip wez seldum herd. Inded, 
sudh'an eppozisfhun tu relijus sects preveld, 
that it wez difficult tu get a liens tu predli in 


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and mor difficult tu get a ceggregeslhun ta 
predh tu. Hens, for fhre summerz, he predht, 
even secund Sunda, under a Fol-pippin appul 
trs, in an ordhard ond bl wun Jon Mathg.* 
At length, permisfhun woz granted tu ynz tbs 
scul-hous at Bushigtun. At this pies, a cen- 
siderabul ov a eoggregeshun sun formd and 
mudh interest in the coz ev Crist follod. Q 
seriz ov evenig metigz began Februeri 1st, 
1880. At thez metigz, meni becem ecsersizd 
in mind, and rued a profesfhun ov relijun. 0p- 
pozisfhun tu this relijus muvment nou beeam 
strog, and az a menz tu c!hec it, or tu dhoc it 
out, the cemmi^hunerz ov the seulz ov the 
Tounship declard that no scul-hous in the 
Tounsfoip sfhud be yuzd for relijus purpusez. 

This desizhun woz mad dgrig the erli part 
ov this revival, dgrig liwidh Jorj woz drivig, 
everi evenig, from Lambertvil, a distans ov 10 
milz. Upon a sertin evenig, the pepul con- 
vend, but the found the dors ov the scul-hous 
clozd agenst them. Shiverig in the cold, the 
aweted the arrival ov the minister, hum, upon 
hiz arrival, the at wuns informd ov ther sitga.- 

*Jen Mafhui/z wif iz a distant relativ. She iz the doter ev 
Benjamin Larisun liu iz a bruttier tu Andru Larisun. Sr., ev 
N. J. Hens, slie iz a cuzin tu mi fatiier. She wez a member 
ev the Solberi Church and subsecwent tu tile metig in Jen 
Mafhri’z orchard, he wez baptizd intu tile sed Church. 


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ghun. It vvoz then tlm tu begin servis, and 
the eppozig parti, standig around, wer jubilant 
that dia wer effectig a dsfst. But Jorj Lar- 
isun wez net tu be stept in hiz ware, nor even 
dhect in biz efforts, bl sudh an eppozig facsthun. 
Inded, the eccazhun wez wun favurabul tu 
an eeshibisdiun ev hiz tactics. 

Ner bl wez a Tavern in bwidh wez a larj 
Bol-rum. At wans be vizited the landlord, 
and stated hiz nedz. Upon ascig him for the 
Ion e.v hiz bol-rum, tu be yuzd, that nit, az a 
plas ev worship, the landlord re j >lld : 4 ‘ Vu ar 

vvelcum tu die yus ev it az leg yu ned it.” 

The ceggregasliun sun cenvend in the bol- 
rum, — sat or stud az sircumstansez indicat- 
ed — and proseded tu devosliunal ecserslzez. 
Jorj precfht from the tecst: 

“ Far hz luct for a siti liwich hath fmmdz- 
shunz, Imz bilder mid macer iz God”. Hebruz 
xi, — 10. 

Mudh interest wez manifest. Qfter the ser- 
mon, an invitasfhun tu arlz wez ecstended tu 
eni hu wer agcsdius for the prarz ev profesig 
cristyanz. Qmug thoz hu stud up wez the 
doter ev die landlord. The devoslhunal ecser- 
slzez centingd until lat at nit, and even then 
the pepul parted reluct a ntli. 

Qfter the metig, arranjments wer mad tu se- 


cqi* a pss ev land on hwich a bens for wursfhip 
cud 1)8 bilt. The land bsirj sscitrd, arrenj- 
mcnts wer med tu bild a lions for temporeri 
yus; and for tbs pement ov tbs land and lum- 
ber, Jorj bscem rssponsibul. Tbs wurc ov 
cartig lumber and bildii) went on with alacriti. 
Oltho tber woz muefh sicnes at tliat tlm, and 
biz professional engejments wer mimerus and 
b s bad biz pesfhents at Lambertvil — ten mHz 
awe — tu attend dqrip the sem tlm, and tbs onli 
msnz ov con veens from Busbigtun tu Lam- 
bertvil and tu the houzez in b widh hiz pesbents 
wer, woz b! carrij and liors, in tins dez the 
srected’a temporeri lions, 24x48 fst; and upon 
tbs svenii) ov tiis third de, the occiipld it az a 
lions ov wursbip. 

Tbs eor)grsgesbun incrsst, rslijus interest 
increst, profesir) converts asct tu ynmt with 
die dhurdh, until, on tbs last tia Sundez in 
Feb. 1880, Jorj baptlzd into tbs fellosbip ©v 
tbs Solberi Cliurdh — tbs dhurcdi ov hwidh lie 
woz a member — 28 solz. Tbs wurc progrest, 
mor wer baptlzd and die coggregesbun enlarjd, 
until ther wer meni hu dszird tu ©rganlz a 
dhurdh at tiiat pies. Accordii)li in Ogust 1880, 
a number, with letterz in band, convsnd and 
bl yunltig formd tbs Baptist Churdh at Busb- 
igtun. 


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Ov this dhurdh, Jorj at wuns, becam pastor 
and hazfild that ©ffis ever sins. 

Dgrig 1887, the congregasfoun erected die 
edifis in hwidh the lieu wursfhip, — at a cost ©v 
$3000. It iz a fram structiir 30x60 ft. Sub- 
stanshalli bilt accordig tu the prinsipulz ev 
modern arcitectqr. 

Beslds actig az pastor ov this dhurdh, lie haz 
©fen supplid uther dhurdhez, and tu-da he iz 
the pastor ov both the Baptist dhurdh at 
Bnsliigtun, Pa., and ov the Baptist dhurdh at 
Riggoz N. J., — notwithstandig the tu liouzez 
ar mor than seventen mllz apart, and can onli 
be redht bl privet convaans. 


CHAPTER VIII. 

LTTSI AN LARISUN. 

Lnsi A. Larisun woz born September 16th, 
1833. She iz a med and livz witii her father. 

Lnsi haz olwez bin remarcabul for cwiet- 
nes, sinseriti, dherfulnes, industri, frugaliti, 
benevolens and chariti. She iz a consistent 
Cristyan. She woz baptizd into the Baptist 
Churdh at Sandi Rij, Jan. 1st, 1860. 

She haz olwez onord labor, az wel with her 


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APPEND ICS T IT CHAPTER VII. 

Upon die 9th ev Mardh, 1859, Jorj II. Lnr- 
isun marrid Sera Cwie Fisher, doter gv Celeb 
Earli Fisher, Esq., gv 8s t Amwel Teunship, 
Huntcrdun Co., N. J. From this yunyun 
ishshud a sun, Fransis Weland, and a dote*)-, 
Anna Farli, hu wgz born Ogust 19tb, 1862; 
and bo did gv Scarlet Fever, upon the 9tb gv 
Febriaeri, 1869. 

Sera Cwie Fisher iz a model gv indust ri and 
frugality benevolens and bespitaliti. She baz 
olvvez bin popular with tboz bia estem die in- 
dustrius and the liberal. 

Fransis vvgz born November 5tb, 1860. He 
studid rnedisin in biz father’z offis, in die sit i 
gv Lambertvil, N. J. He attended Lectqrz 
in die Yuniversiti gv Vermont, dqriq tbe sesh- 
unz gv 1882 and 1885. In die Collej gv Fi- 
zishanz and Surjunz gv Boltimor, Md., bea£- 
tended an espeshal cors gv Lectqrz, at the 
Meterniti Hospital, dqriq the yer 1884; and 
dqriq tbe yer 1885, in the sein Instil qshun, be 


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attended an espeslhal cors in Surjcri. From 
tbs sain Institiisfhun, hs rsssvd the dsgre, M. D., 
Mardh loth, 1885. 

Direct li after gradual ii), lie settuld with biz 
father, in tbs praelis gv Medisin and Surjeri. 
He sun bscam veri popular az a Fizisfhan 
ami Surjun, and non enjeiz a larj patrunej. 

Upon ths 22nd ©v Mardh, 1884, hs rnarrid 
Cordelia Larisun, dolor ov Jon Ja Larisun, 
and Harriet Birum, ov Blodjet Milz, N. Y. 

Cordelia Larisun, iz an affabul ladi, ov rneni 
accomplishments. Her fattier, Jon J. Larisun, 
iz ths sun ov Nansi Bouli and Jozef Larisun, 
lua woz ths sun ov David Larisun ov Hector, 
1ST. Y., lua woz ths sun ov Wilyam Larisun ©v 
Chester, Morris Count i, N. J., hu woz ttis sun 
ov Jon Larsen, the Dan. 

(Ss ths Jensaloji ov Jon Larsen, the Den, 
in ths appendics tu this hue). 

J. J. Larisun iz a man ov enterprlz, pusfli, 
and indnstri. Bred t u agricultiir, hs haz ever 
had ths interest ov ths farmer in vip and in oi 
hiz undertaeiij, hs haz wurct for tiis welfer 
ov ths prod user. 

At prezent hs tilz a larj farm, haz an ecs- 
tensiv dari and iz Prezident ov ths cumpani 
that sdiips mile from ttis stasfhun non az Blod- 
jet Milz. 


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He iz ©Iso the oner ev jcl grov ev trez ©v 
Slmgar Mepul and iz engejd in the maniifact- 
\\v ev Mepul Shngar. 









































































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hart and handz az with her mouth, and hwar- 
ever her handz can serv a wurthi c©z, thar tha 
ar fafhfulli plTd. Her peuer ev endurans, in erli 
Ilf, waz ©lmost niai veins. ^ remember a liltul 
sircumstans that sfhoz meni .treis ev Lusi : 
Hwen David Larisun marrid, hiz father, Ugcul 
Andria Larisun fhot, ev cors, he must mac a 
rsseps.hu n parti . And az he had onli wun 
dhlld lie must mac a parti that wild du enur, 
net onli tu hiz on heushold, but tu ©1 hiz 
cifh and cin ; — and 7/e did it. The invitasfhunz 
went everi-hwar — and everi lied i that wez in- 
vited cam, and the hens wez hid, and ©1 out. 
ev dorz, wez hid, — until, tit find standig rum, 
sum in die dor-yard cllmd up intu the trez. 

Wei! tu fed sudh a host tuc net onli lodz ev 
provizhun, hut a grat del ev wurc — scild labor, 
but labor ev the hardest clnd. Tu get serv- 
ants enuf and sudh az neu hen tu wurc at 
sudh preparasihun az must her lie mad wez ©1- 
most an impessihiliti. But, aheut ten daz be- 
for the appointed Urn, Ugcul Andru and Qnt 
Mari went tu father’z, in that old fashund we., 
tu invit tu the r&sepsfhun. Hwll thar, Qnt Mari 
stated tu mu ther and tu die rest ev the famili 
the difficultiz under hwidh sdie wez laborig, 
and that die did net no liwet tu du. Lusi, 
in her cwlet wa, sed : “Qnt Mari! Tl go horn 


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with yu and help yu prsper for ths rssepsfhun 
if yu wil consent that ^ sfhal du so.” 

Qnt Mori rsplld: ki Wei, Lusi! Ld lie veri 
niucfh tu hav yn tu go with ns and tu hav yur 
help — yu or just the clnd ov persun ws so 
gretli nsd; — but ws wont yu az a gest, — ws 
don’t wont yu az a servant; — and yu can’t bs 
both.” 

Lusi rsplld : u O! ws can manej that : Li 
tec with ms sucfh a dres az if intend tu wer 
hwen if wurc, and ths wun Hr wislh tu wer at 
ths rssepsfhun — and then f wil not nsd tu cum 
horn for enifhiy til ths rssepsfhun iz over and 
yur hens iz set in order agen: — f fhigc ws wil 
get aloy with matters wel snuf.” 

Qnt Meri rsplld : u Lusi ! I f yu can manej it 
so szi, and yu ar wilir) tu go, ws wil bs glad 
tu hav yu!” 

Lusi woz sun redi, Ugcul Andru and Qnt 
Meri wer sun at horn, and Lusi, ov cors, woz 
sun a a biddi,” — in ths cichen, doun sellar, up 
sterz, at ths wel, in ths garret — at beeiy, at 
swspiy — at cucii), at clsniy — at enifhiy and 
everifhig that nsded tu bs dun in, or about, a 
lions that woz tu bs set in order for so larj a 
concurs ov pspul az woz ecspected tu attend 
that rssepshun; and, at it slhs cept until tlis rs- 
sepslhun woz over, and tlis hous set in order agen. 


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Digr'ii] the da prior tu die resepsfhun wun 
J. 17., a wurcman hia had leij bin in the famili 
W0z empleid about tbs hous tn help in varius 
waz. Ta lmv thigz in redines and handi tn 
serv, not a lit t ul poltri woz tn be earvd and 
plast upon plats tu bs redi tn 1)8 set upon the 
tabul at eni urjent col. Tbs abundans ov 
material, the savori odor and the sz ov gettig 
the material woz mor than the fello’z appetlt 
end withstand. And, az the hostes bad him 
help himself, and az he felt sertin that eni 
amount that he mit et wnd not perseptabli loer 
the pil, he induljd tn hiz utmost eapasiti, — 
manli in cold dhicen, cold turci and frut-cae. 
At the yuzhual our, he and die men foes, ol 
but Ugcul Andru, retird. The wimen, havig 
stil meni fliiijz tu attend tu, contingd then* wurc 
tu a mudh later our. But, ner midnit, most ov 
ttyem — -jaded out completli — drug thar weri 
selvz on tu bed. The rest, ecseptig Lusi, 
gatherd around the sittig-rum stov tu rest a 
littul be for retlrig, and tu toe ov the merro and 
hwot it wud brig forth. 

Clbout that tim, ther began tu be trubul in 
the rum in hwidh slept J. N., the man hu had 
bin helpiij die wimen carv poltri and caes, and 
carri the earvd products intu die pantri and 
sellar. He grond amazigli, woz delerius, hol- 
lod terrificalli and fhraslht about fgriusli at. 


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timz, — vvGZ up — woz damn — hutted hiz lied a- 
genst th 8 wol — trld t u vomit and — but flier 
woz no y\\ s — the had tn send for flip. Doctor, 
and the did it urjentli. — ^ lost no t Ini in re- 
spondig tn the col and woz on the sen, about 
vvun o’elee A. M. Ct fill dos ov ipecacuanha 
sun lielpt the fello r ev sumfhig les than a slop- 
hueet ful ov haf-dhud dhicen, turci, fna t-cee, 
et cetera , out ov hiz ecig stumac; we then 
trusted til o fill dos ov jelup and gemboj tn 
tec h wot ever els he mil hav in hiz pouch, out 
the uflier we. Az the fell ) felt relevd and woz 
incllnd tn slep, went down sterz intu the 
sittig-rum Inver sat Ugcul Andru, Clnt Meri 
and a yug led i b! the neni ov Prol. Ugcul 
Andru, ov corn, woz in a fin yumur — lafig 
hart i li about the predicament the fello had got 
intu, and espeshalli about the enormus capasi- 
ti ov the fello'z stumac and the effishensi ov 
that dos ov ipecac. Ov core, ^ lielpt him laf; 
but Qnt Meri and flie uflier ledi wer tu tird 
tn laf — a liarti smll and a slo, fent dhueul woz 
ol ether ov them cud rez. 

Az ©ui* laf subsided, J fhot herd a vois in 
the cidhen, Az J lisend, in a vois, lo, plentiv, 
swet and cler, she sag: 

“Lord, 5 her ov shouerz ov blesigz. 

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Tu ms ths sog woz mi; hut ths vois, % woz 
sfhijr, had efen, bsfor, in sog, brot msecsewizit 
dsllt, — had suthd ms in ourz ©v turbqlensi, 
lifted ms hvven 1 woz despondent, encurejd ms 
hwen 1 vvoz font, stregfhend ms hvven, in yufh, 
1 had felt inadscwet tu ths eors ov lTf had so 
erli espouzd, and asfhiard ms that “ther remsn- 
eth, therfor, a rest tu ths pspul ov God.” Az 
1 lisend, the toct — and sum wun asct ms cwest- 
yunz ; — but livvot the sed — or hvvot the aset ms, 
1 never nsu; — 1 woz intent on ths melodi and 
ths spirit that ssmd tu cum from ths cidhen. 

1 did not no that Lusi vvoz in ths hons help- 
ig them and had no iszun tu mistrust that sfhs 
woz about. But sumhon 1 aset: “Izn’t that 
Lusi’z vois?” GntMeii rsplld : “Yes, it iz; 
yur sister had ths gudnes tu cum and hoi j) us 
in this tun ov nsd, and s'hs iz in ths cidhen, 
hard at wurc yet — get tig redi for ths morro. 
Ws ar ol tli*d out — eomplstli so — ecseptig her; 
and ws hav ewit for ths nit; ther ar a fsu thigz 
yet tu bs dun; but ^ fhot ws end du them in 
ths mornig. Ws wil then bs rested a littul, 
and wil fsl mor lie wure. But sdis fhigcs that 
“ws sliud not Isv til tu-morro enifhig diat sliud 
bs dun tu-de.” 

Bl this tlm, Mis Prol had gon tu ths cidhen 
dor and sed: “Lusi! Cornslizhsr: don’t yu 
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Herupon Lusi cem in, — az erect and sim- 
metric az a pes ov statgari, and az grasful az 
a Parisian Bel, with slevz pind up abuv her 
elboz, aprui> 011, and uthervvTz comi)lstli rigd 
for wurc, — lucig az dherful and az plezant az 
a soul girl upon a Ms mornig, — and az eom- 
pozd and az dignifld az if sThs wer lezhgrli at- 
tendig tu the domestic afferz in her muther’z 
lions — and az fre from slnz ov t!r, or fa teg, az 
if sThs had never non hvvot wurc woz. 

Az slip, stud ascig ms about ml helfh, Qnt 
Mari sed: “We hav bin cocsig Lnsi, for the 
last our, tn cwit wurc, and lev the rest that 
tlier iz tu do until mornig. But slis won’t 
cwit.” 

Herupon Lusi replid: “ Out Mari ! Tn-morro 
wil brig its 011 wurc — and ther wil be enuf ov 
it tu consiim everi oin* ov the da. In the morn- 
ig yu wil ol be tlrd ; the fhigz most urjent wil 
demand yur attensfhun, and, yu wil hav tu do 
them ; and ov tu-da’z wurc, liwot we do not 
get dun tu-nlt, wil not be dun at ol. Ther ar 
a feu fhigz yet that sfhud be dun; and I sbal 
not retir until I do them.” 

With her repll, I woz wel enuf plezd ; it 
brot befor me so vividli the tedhig ov our 
muther, — and I felt proud that I had a sister 
that woz so tru tu her parental tranig. Yet I 


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sed: “Lusi, dia yu never get tird?” She re- 
|)l!d: “No, 1 luiv never bin tird — 1 dia net no 
liwet it iz tu be tird.” 

Lusi lieu the importans ev cdfnpletig that 
wurc that nit, and Larisun-llc, wez goiq tu 
du it. Hwen ol els cam tu ths rum tu se the 
sic man’z p rages and die reuzing tlm he had at 
vemitig, Lusi remand cwletli at wurc, — it wild 
tec mor than sudh a ])es ev felli tu tec her from 
liwet she had engajd tu du. 

The capasiti for endiirans that olwaz attendz 
a wel developt bedi, subjected tu preper dissi- 
plin, and pervaded bl a preper spirit, surprlzez 
efen, even thoz hu no so ivel liwet man iz, and 
tor liwet he iz mad. 

Lusi olwaz neu the valij ev Yes and JVo ; 
and in her cenversashun. she olwaz asslnz tu 
tliez wurdz thar preper valii. In her toe, she 
iz an egzemplifler ev that scripting* hwidh redz : 
“ Let yur ya be ?/a, and yur n& be no . ; for hwet- 
soever iz mor than this cumefh ev evil.” 

She haz olwaz bin particular and sircum- 
spect respecting the assoshiats she haz mad. 
Ilwll ardent and enderig tu thoz hum she haz 
trld and found tru and wurthi, she haz olwaz 
bin coshus in admitting nq accwantansez, and 
carful t u c wit, at wuns and forever, die cum- 
pani ev eni wun hu pruvd tu be unwurthi. 


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CHAPTER IX. 


CORN 8 LIUS WILSUX LARISUN. 

Cornelius Wilsun Larisun wez born Jamje- 
ri lOfh, 1837 He began tu attend tbs Lecturz 
at the Ponsil vania Cell ‘j ev medisin in Filadel- 
ba, Pa., October 29fh, 1855.* He began die 

*Hwil attendig cellej in Filadelfia Pa., C. W. Larisun and 
liiz bruther G. II. Larisun, tu sev ecspens, horded themselvz. 
The rented, ev wun Dr. Cellinz, an Irish Fizislian, a rum upen 
tlis tliird stori ev a liens in Fitzwoter Stret, eppozit tu the sit 
at hwieli Fleur Strst cemnupiicets with Fitzwoter Stret, at the 
ret ev this dellarz a munth. The cest ev ths fhigz the et, frem 
the 29fh ev October, 1855, til ths 24th ev Dsseniber 1855, wez 
31.81 seats per wee ; ths cest ev vitalz, per wsc, frem tils 2nd de 
ev Janqeri, 1856, til ths 15fh ev March, 1856, wez 61.56 sents. 
Ths vitalz censisted menli ev potetoz, swst potetoz, corn msl 
and si^et. Frem October til Dsseniber, swst potetoz cud be bot 
for 25 sents a bascet=:3 pecs ; but, frem Dsseniber, til thsfelloig 
Sprig, tile cest abeut 85 sents a bascet. Hens ths incrss ev cest 
in-ths livig. 

Az C. W. Larisun went tu Filadelfia with onli 28 dellarz in 
hizpecet, it wez uesesseri tu bs sumhwet sconemic in livig tu 
mee that sum last az leg az pessibul. Oltho biz father lond liiz 
brutherz, Jorj and Andru, muni tu pe ther we liwil at scul, C. 
W. wez nsthereded with muni nor wez lis eded in eni uther we — 
nsthei biliiz perents, nor hi eni uther persun. Tu pe hizsculig, 
tu purchas liiz clothig and tu pe for ths uther fhigz lis bot, lis 
olwez ernd tils muni bsfor lis contracted ths det. Az lis nsded 
much mor than ths $28.00 that lis tuc with him tu Filadelfia, tu 







Lambertville, N. J. 
































































































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studi 9v tbe Latin, tbe Grec and tbe I r)i> lisfh larj- 
gwejez under tbs direcsfiiun ov die Rev. Jona- 
than Detun Merril A. M., at the Flemijgtun 
Hi Scul, in Qpril, 185(5.* Be began tu tsdh' tbs 
district scul, at Mor’z Scul-hous, in Delawer 
Tounsthip, Hunterdnn Co., N. J., Se])tember 
loth, 1856. lie began tn tedh the district scul, 
at Rod on n, upon the first Munde in Gpril, 1857. 
Be enterd the Senyur Academic Clas, in fi le 
Yuniversiti atLuisburg, (non Rucnel Ynniver- 

defra the ecspensez ev tile winter, lie wurct at verius tiiigz dqrig 
tile intervalz ev studi and dq,rii) thoz dezhwen tiler wer no lect- 
ti ,z • 

Hiz first apperans in public, az a sclzman, wez at tile corner 
ev Gfli Stret and Welnut Stret, — with a fleur barrel az a stand, 
selig Flag’z Majic Ritig Pres, and Flag’z Instanteneus Relef, — 
a liniment that at that tim wez just pumig intu vog. Leter, up 
en tile sem corner, he sold the PecetGrlndston, — tu pesezev stel 
plct yuzd tu sharpen nivz&c., — and die Creperz — a centrivans 
tu sci u upen the liel ev a sliu tu prevent the fet frem slippir) 
hwen wocig upen is. Az a selzman, he wez sucsesful ;* and, ol 
dio seldum at liiz stand mor dian an eur at a tim, az tile inter- 
valz helwen lectgrz, and tile tim frem delit til the first mornig 
lector (liwicli began at 10 A. M.) wez short, he ernd several del 
larz, accwird a valgabul ecsperiens, and lernd that, hwen he 
wonted tu, he cud command the attensliun and the respect ev 
men. — But the biznes wez distcstful ; and azsun az utiiereppor 
tgnitiz prezented, o Itho much les lucrativ, he abandend hiz stand 
at 6fh, and Welnut. 

* Without a teclier, he lernd tu red Latin and Grec, hwil pleuig. 
The old Latin and Grec gramma rz (Bullions) liwich lie yuzd tu 
carri hwil at wurc, in hiz pecets, hav tile cornerzworn of til tim 
sho tile sliep ev the pecets in hwich the wer carrid. The Latin 
grammar just fitted the rit t reuzerz pecet ; the Grec grammar just 
az snugli fitted the left. 


siti,) September 20th, 1857. Hs entord ths 
Flemigtun III Sinai, October 1858. Hs began 
tu tsdh ths soul at Copper IT i 1 , the first Munde, 
in Febnie ri L859. Hs purdhast, ov Silas Hut- 
man, in Mardh, 1860, ths farm hwidh iz jeind 
aleg ths west border bl ths Parsunej lot ev 
ths Saudi Rij Baptist Churdh; irj)Gn this farm 
hs rmavd and began a select Scial erli in Gpril, 

1860. Hs bscein Assosfhiet Prinsipal ov ths 
Flemigtun Hi Scial, September, 1860. Hs bs- 
cem Prinsipal ov ths Flemigtun Hi Scial, Me 

1861. Hs matriculated in the Medical Collej, 

at Jensva, N. Y., October 1861. Hs began 
tu tedh ths district scial at Yunyunvil, Hunter- 
dun Co. N. J., Gpril, 1862. Ilsrsssvd ths ds- 
grs, Doctor ov Medisin, Jan., 20fh, 1863. Hs 
settuld at Riijgoz, az a Fizislhan and Tsdher, 
Febriaeri 16th, 1863. Hs woz appointed, bl 
ths Guvernor ov ths Slat, Superintendent, ov 
ths Scialz ov Hunterdun Counti, Nsu Jerzi, 
Me, 1865. Hs woz baptlzd intia tlis Baptist 
Churdh at Riggoz, Ogust 14th, 1869. He bs- 
cam partner with hiz bruther Andria B. Lari- 
sun, in establishig ths Semineri at Riggoz, Jan. 
1st, L870. 11s woz appointed Profesor ov Nat- 

qra 1 Slens, in ths Yuniversiti at Luisburg, Pa., 
(no a Bucnel Yuniversiti) September, 1874. 
II s woz appointed Profesor ev Zoeloji in ths 
Yuniversiti at Luisburg, Ogust, 1876. I4s 


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organize! tbs Qeademi ov Siens and Qrt at Iiig- 
goz, N. J., September, 1876. 

IJs nmrrid Mari Jan Serjent,* Mardh 26tb, 
1863, bl hum hs haz tu children, Polli Larisun 
hu Yvoz born Februari 4th, 1871; and Ben 
Larisun hu wez born Jamjari 2Lst., 1876. 

Agricult ur, enjinerig, manqfactiii iip frut cul- 
tgr, lectiirig, editig a Jurnal, i*Tt irj hues, con- 
tribiitiij articulz til slentific, medical and cur- 
rent literatqr, et cetera , hay efen bcciipid hiz Is- 
zhqr moments and hel j>t tn fil in a fram-wurc 
ov that bildii] ws col Ilf, hwidh uthervviz m!t 
bav egzhibited mor defects, mor unecciipid 
apartments and mor empti nichez. 

Qpanfhropic from dhlldhud, hs haz spent hiz 
best enrz in cemmipiicatig with Natitr, and in 
lernig Natip-’z loz. 


* Meri Jen Serjent wezborn upen tils farm non az tils Serjent 
Hoiiisted, nsr Flemigtun, N. J., 11011 one! bi Jozef Serjent, upen 
tils 34th' de ev Ogust, 1837. Slis graduated at tils Nsu Jerzi 
Stet Normal Seal, Jull, 1859. Sins gradqetir), slis haz bin en- 
gajd, az a tsclier, tils most ov ths tlm. 

Slis tot dqrig ths soul ysr 1857 and ’58 az ths first assistant tu 
Prinsipal Samqel Robinsun, in ths Public Seal ov Lambertvil, 
N. J. Slis tot the -district Scul, nsr Copper Hil, N. J., dqriij 
tlis ysr 1863. Slis woz tils tsclier ov Mathematics in tils Semi 
neri at Riggoz,' N. J., dqriij ths Academic ysr 1873 and 1874. 
Slis haz bin Tsclier ov Mathematics, in ths Ocademi ov Siens 
and an, at Riggoz, N. J., sins September, 1876. 


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CHAPTER X. 

MORI GATHERIN' L ARISEN. 

Mari Oatherin Larisun woz born on t! i b 2nd 
da ov Jnll, 1839. In erli Ilf, Mori woz ewlet, 
pssful, fond ov hues and ov nuizie, and llet 
eumpani. She so the funni sid ov fhirjz cvvidi 
and woz veri entertanir). She had an ecsellent 
vois and saij wel. She erii beeam a member 
ov the Baptist Churdh at Saudi Rij, N. J., and 
tue mudh interest in the affarz ov that dhurdh. 
She marrid Tomas C. Jonsun* Pebruari 12th, 
1803. hi hum site haz had thre dhildren — Jan 
L., Osa and Benjamin Larisun, ov hum tu onli 
ar liviij. 

Jan L. Jonsun woz born JulUfh, 180L She 
did Ogust 11th, 1804. 

Osa Jonsun woz born Ogust 3rd, 1807. 
Duriij die summer ov 1888, she tot seul. She 
marrid Wilyarn J. Molstun, Sept., 22nd, 1888. 
She livz at Verona, Allegani Co., Pa. 

*Temas C. Jonsun, sun ev 81ius Jonsun, woz born Desember 
31 st, 1839. From childliucl, he woz febul and sufferd il lielfli. 
F ©l* meniyerz, he liaz livd atSlectun, N. J. 


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Benjamin Larisun Jonsun wez born Feb- 
riaeri Loth, 1871.. 

At the birth ev her last dhlld, Mari sufterd 
Puerperal Fever. Her ilnes wez sever and 
protracted, and wez fellod bl subacut inflema- 
slhun ev die meninjez ev the bran and spinal 
cord hwidh becem crenie, and haz ever sins 
eept her in il helth. For meni yerz, sfhe haz bin 
veri corpulent. 


CHAPTER XL 

A. B. LAKISUN, M. D. 

Andria Butterfes Larisun wez born upen 
d)e Larisun Ilomsted, ner Saudi Rij, N. J., 
Des. 31st, 1841. In dhlldbnd, he attracted the 
attenshun ev ol hu neu him bl hiz hllarius dis- 
pozisthun, hiz sportiv prarjcs, hiz redi wit, biz 
gnd yomur, hiz jovial toe and hiz ajiliti. It 
semd that it wez net pessibul for him tu be 
cwlet, and it semd just az impessibul that he 
sfhud let eni wun els be cwlet. Tu hav fun, 
and tu be plaiij prarjes, and tu tez thoz areund 
him, wez ever hiz eccupesfhun, hwen notatwvrc; 
and, at thez thiijz, he had no madh. 


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In the famili sircul, be woz sudh a pest, in 
diez wez, that Muth r ynzd tu col him Pic. 
This liem, az applid til him, I yuzd tu fhipc 
woz sipgplarli significant; for, Cher woz no 
wun in die famili out ov luam he wud net vent- 
ip- tu pic fun even if the prapc wez the eoz ov 
hurtip, just a littul , the persun piet, and he get 
hwiptfor perpetretip hiz prapc. 

Father olwaz laft at hiz u ^h!nz,” even hwen 
he had tu scold him for hiz conduct; for, hiz 
misdhivusnes vvoz ov that order that mad yu 
laf, even hwen yn war determind yu wud not. 
He woz die onli wun ov the famili that I ever 
neu tu ventip- tu pla a prapc, houever slit it 
mit he, upon muther; — or, in eni uther we tu 
turn a laf upon her. But, if timz got til mo- 
notonus dip*ip the lop evenipz ov winter, that, 
iz — if nun ov the rest ov the famili wer in con- 
disflhun tu he pict, and ther woz jeneral cwle- 
tpd, becoz ov muther’z osteriti, after a littul 
hvvll wun mit ecspect that, silens wud be bro- 
cen bi sum littul prapc, or sum littul perpetra- 
s r hun that wud convuls die houshold, — and az 
stern az sthe woz, licli enuf muther’z graviti 
wud be disturbd tu. ' 

For hiz perpetresfhun, licli enuf he wud get 
pritti wel bocst; but in cas die prapc woz suc- 
sesful, die bocsip wud hav tu be pritti severli 
dun, if it st opt him from lafip. 


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Hs olvvez so ol the fun thei* wez in a fhig, 
and hs olvvez did biz sher ev die wurc, or in- 
curd biz slier ev tbs rise, tu get tbs fun out ev it, 
and in an enjoiabul sfhep. IIs olvvez nsu just 
ben tu manej eni Vvun that hs bad irritated bl 
a prage, and just hen tu brig biz vecst subjects 
bac into ewletqd, if net into eempozhqr. So, 
bs vvez efen in a u brsz” but never in “trvbvl” 

Q1 tbs yugsterz lna lict fun wer “on tbs lit 
sld ev” Andru; and beuever mudh the mlt 
help him pic at utber foes, the never piet at 
him; — oltbo bs wez unsperig az tu bum bs 
piet. r fbs rsdsmig cwelitiz bwicfh endsrd him 
tu oi biz assoshiets wer, bs vvez olvvez si rcu in- 
spect az tu tmi and pies; and bs never told 
eni fhig about tbs prages or joes bs pled upon 
eni vvun; or enifhig rsspeetig tbs rszult ev eni 
ev biz [) rages or joes. 

Heuever mudh eni wun get “set up” bl 
him, or bl biz cemradz, bs olvvez rsspeeted 
tber fsligz; and bs olvvez ssmd tu hav a elnd 
ev pi ti for them that vvez veri suthig tu tber 
sorz and veri hslig tu ther vvundz. Bssldz, bs 
ever trld tu esp thoz bu wer net vvitnesez tu 
biz prages from lernig enifhig that cud, in eni 
we, hurt biz “victim’z” fsligz. 

11 wen hs wez a smol bei, in tbs district scul, 
bs vvez a pesterer that, bl ths tsdher, wez luvd, 


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fsrd, wotdht, hwiptand laft at, from mornig til 
nit. Ov cors, tu hav fun tbs livlog de, in scul 
or eut ©v scul, with thoz ov hiz ej, tu him, in 
thoz dez, wez perfectli rlt. But, tlier wer nun 
tu larj, if the cum in hiz we, tu escep hiz wit, 
hiz yumur and hiz prages; and ther wer fsu in- 
dsd hu wonted tu escep. 

Tbs Tsdher himself did not ol wez escep, and 
©fen did not trl — so relisliahul wer biz littul 
perpstresfbunz. 

At wun tlm, hs wez sent tu a ledi tsdher, hu 
sun wislht , slis sed, 64 that hs had never bin 
horn.” Hwen a dhild, bs ssind tu thige that 
wimen wer not med for scul-tsdherz. Qltho 
hs never sed mudh agenst this wun, and from 
hiz toe hwen hs gru older, 1 fhiijc hs rather 
lict her, hs ssmd tu tec ecscwizit dslit in pes- 
terig her. Ths prages that hs wud pie wer 
just sudli az wud esp ths larjer pgpilz convul- 
sivli lafig, and yet just sudh az wud not ewit 
[>rovoc a hwippig, — and olmost eni uther pun- 
islunent that slis cud dsvlz for him avoz instant- 
li turnd intu sum prage that provoct a convul- 
siv laf from ol hu so; and, ©fen, sfhs her-self 
wud bs so convulst with lafter, at hiz prages, or 
hiz priges, or hiz pantomlmz, that, for a-hwil, 
ths scul wud bs assn ov ths wildest hllariti. 

Dgrig ths cors ov s vents, this ledi, hwll tsdh- 
ig, marrid a fello hu woz a selsbreted fiddler. 


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This 9 v itself, and the eensecwensez therfrom 
wldend the bei’z feld for fun. 

At wun tim she rezelvd that she wild not 
bareni mor ev hiz misdhif; and, tu brae it up, 
she wud punish him severli for the slltest. effens. 
Deutles he hot, that, without eni rezelv en 
hiz part, s'he wud hav a bizi tim /or a-iiw\l , 
and perhaps wud lern sumfhirp intu the bar- 
gin. It woz but a short t Tin befor he woz 
put tig forth wun ev hiz best efforts, hwidh net 
onli cenvulst the scul for a tim, rnudh ‘logger 
than yuzhqal, but hwidh cenvulst her much 
mor, she acnelejd, than sfhe had ever bin een- 
vulst befor. But, sfhe had rezelvd tu hwip 
him, and az sun az she cud gen cempozhip* 
enuf, and strength enuf, (for sfhe sed herself 
that she la ft until she wez egzosted and she 
cud la f no mor,) at it she went, in rather a se- 
ver wa. But, suner than she fliot reacsfhun 
cud folio sudh a h wipjiijg, an epport ipiiti pre- 
zented hwidh he cud net rezist, and az the sed, 
“he set her up” agen. The praijc hat he then 
pled upon her iz ineffabul, and, az she told 
wun ev her cenfidenshalz afterward, sfhe hot 
that she wud eil him r!t awe. But the pragc 
semd tu be so simpul, so laf'abul and appar- 
entli so innosentli dun, and so unintensfhunal, 
hat she jiozd; and jet, in hiz luc she cud se 
such cemmiggligz ev innosens, impudens and 


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togishnes Hint with 6)8 rest ov the soul sflis 
1 a ft until stlis get so lent that she wez oblljd 
tu sit deun tu laf; and stil she la ft til she cud 
laf no mo r. 

Ther wez no mor scial that fornun, and hwet 
tu dia with th 8 littul offender she did net no. 
She so that in the last tu p rages she wez most 
in folt, and that s f hs had olredi incurd an epi- 
sod that wud brig deun a laf upon her hem 
even wun hu herd it, h wether yug or old, sent 
or sinner, sej or ssr, and that it wud never be 
forget ten. And, hwet prage init be in ezi 
redh ev ths littul imp, tu be pled upen her 
within tlie necst ten mi nits, hu cud tel? She 
so that she ohvez get the wurst ev it; and so 
did everi wun els hu bsceni the subject ev hiz 
pic. Flnalli, she pled with him u for mersi,” 
az scul techerz efen du with ther pupilz hvven 
the ar over-madht bT them; he semd tu sho 
mersi toord her, and after that she get no mor 
than her sher ev hiz prages. 

Hwen a bent 14 yerz old, Andru began tu 
turn hiz attenshun tu miizic. At that tim, 
ther wez a militeri cumpani at Serjentsvil in 
hwidli eur bruther Jorj H. wez depli interest- 
ed, — a lgtenant or a eaptin ev the cumpani — 4 
hav forget ten hvvich. Mgzishanz ev the drum 
order wer feu and the most ev them superan- 
nuated or eut ev practis. liens, a yug recrut 


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woz in reewest, and tn ad tn this, Andru wez 
invited. The invitesfhun wez sumhwet urjent, 
and he acsepted it. 

Tlier wez then, at enr father’z, a bes drum, 
tia tenor drumz, a fit or to, a melodeen and 
tu fiddulz. The giriz cud pie the melodeen 
vvel snuf and sig lie nltingelz, and we end bio 
the fit* and peund thoz old drumz til ol in die 
neburhud wislht we wer in Halifacs or Pin Up- 
land : hvvil Jorj and If end pie thoz fiddulz til 
no wun wonted eni mor mgzic ev the violin 
sort. So, Andru had tn du onli az the rest 
ev us did tu tee rage amug mitzie mecerz. 

But, amug us, Andru sun tue first rage, es- 
pesfhalli with die tenor drum. Iliz nimbulnes 
and hiz decsteriti, preperli trend, sun brot the 
best rezults — and olmost er we lieu it, hwen 
the Cumpani, upen militeri paredz, in eum- 
pani with uther Cumpaniz, he, az a drummer, 
wez attractig the attensfhun ev the best miizi- 
sdianz in the best Cornet bandz with hwidh we 
met. 

He lieu tue lessunz ev the best performerz 
and wez sun reted amug die best drummerz 
that j)led. Hiz cumpani wez sot bi mgzish- 
anz everihwer and hiz jenial manner med him 
a fevorit with ol he met. Az a performer up- 
en the drum, in several contests for wejerz, he 


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woz dhozen az a partner bl older and mor 
famus muzislhaiiz, and, in everi cas, the ] >art i 
with liwicfh hs operated net onli canid ef ths 
wejer, but the pam az wel. 

Az Andria maturd sloli, 1 dout not that hiz 
yiafhfulnes and hiz smolnes ev stetur helpt tu 
attract the notis ov meni. For, at, the aj ov 
14, heapperd lie a hoi ov LI — so smol vvoz hiz 
statur and so toi woz hiz her. Lie* the rest ov 
the famili, he redht adult aj mudh later in yerz 
til an the averej. At 18, he apperd veri boiisTh ; 
at 21, he had no herd, and at 22, he had not 
sfhavd. He woz then 5 fet 10 indhez hi, and 
wad about 1(50 poundz. Hwen he graduated 
in rnedisi.n, just after hiz 21st, birthda, the Hen 
ov the collej sed tiiat that collej had never 
graduated a persun hu luct so yurp Inded 
h.iz y nth ful apperans woz ever notist. 

Qbout the t Tin he began tu handul Hie drum, 
he began tu lern tu dans, or rather he began 
tu dans — for no Lari sun haz ever had tu lern 
tu dans. It haz olwaz bin about az natural 
for a Larisun tu dans az it iz for a dhicen tu 
seradh. And yet the most ov them hav pad a 
eonsiderabul ov attenshun tu this nobul art 
and hav adhevd a gud reput ashun in it — but 
ecseptig hiz grand fa flier, perhaps no wun ov 
the Larisunz had a better “step” than he. 
And, tu dans, he woz ever redi, and at it, he 


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ssmd tu never Hr. Ol the yug foes hu cud 
“step” wonted tu dans with him, and ol die 
old foes hu had ever “slept” or had ever sen 
hiz fatiier or hiz grandfather step, wonted tu 
se him dans. Inded net onli befor he went tu 
scial, but ol die we thru both cellejez he had a 
record az a danser; and hizgresful muvnients 
wer everihwcr die subject ov comment. I 
wuns herd a ledi hu neu him for meni yerz, 
se that sfhe never so him, at vvurc or pie, mec 
an ungresful muv. 

Iliz aptnes tu dans and hiz sport iv we led 
nieni that wer older than he tu sec hiz cum- 
pani, and tu led him li wither utiierwiz he wud 
net hav gen. 

In ear neburhud, the athletic sports liggerd 
logger than in meni u tiler parts ev die sentral 
stats. The persun hu cud net du sumfliig at 
swimmig, reslig, becsig, fut-resig and rldig 
horsez at a brec-nec sped — witii the saddul, 
witheut the saddul or standig u})en the hors’z 
bac — wez censiderd no fello at ol. In thez 
sports, eni ev die yug Larisunz wer net behind 
the averej ev die beiz, but in the most ev diem, 
Andru wez at the lied. The hors that cud def 
him wez net found, — even hwen a smol bei. 
In ol ev eur rasez — and we yuzd tu hav meni — 
we cud depend upon Andru’z “sticig cvvelitiz,” 
and hiz abiliti tu “rid” vvel and appll the 


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“spur” better. II* hs did net sucssd in tlis 
res, thsfolt wez in the hors. 

Hs llet horsez and hs card littul lien frae- 
sHius the vver; and Hts vvurst ev horsez llct him ; 
and hs wnd do a dsl with a hors that olinost 
no vvun els end handul. Hs erii lernd ol ths 
“tries” that horsmen praetis in manejig bad 
horsez; and in appliig thsz “tiics,” hs wez 
amazigli injsnyus and veri handi — so rnudh so 
that hs wez efen empleid tu “brec” sum hors 
that had bin prut age list ths soil ev ecsellent 
horsmen. 

In reslig, hs t ne espeshal dsllt — and hs wnd 
yoe in with a fello, larj or smol, in eni “hold.” 
Hwen hs bsgan tn resul, I du net no; but I so 
him at it sun after hs cwit vverig a dhlld’z 
dres, — and I am net sfhur $ hav net ssn him in 
a set reslig madh bsfor hs had put en pants. 

Hwen at ths Flemigtun III Soul, it wez eur- 
rentli told that ther wez net a fello in ths seul 
that hs had net put upen hiz bae — oltho tlier 
vver several in ths seul hu vver flv ysrz older 
than hs, and veri larj, hevi men, at that. And 
liwTl hs wez at ths medical cellej at Jensva, 
N. Y., hs wez ths fello hu wez ever redi 
tu resul and hu wez never fhron. Wun ev ths 
fiiculti sed tu ms wun da: “Tgtor! that 
bruther ev yurz iz wun ev ths stoutest, ewic- 


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est and most decstrus felloz ! hav ever sen. 
I Is haz fhron everi man in tbs eellej and sever- 
al ©v the bnlliz in the tonn. This mornig, 
©n the grsn, I so him put seven ©v hiz clas- 
mets d©nn in les than ten mi nits — and then hs 
banterd the, rest ©v hiz clas. Ji hav never sen 
hiz lie and I hav never herd ©v it.” 

In reslig, hs olwez cept in gnd yumur, and 
1)8 olwez eept everi hedi els so — for him it 
w©z fun — and he mad it fun for everi bed! els — 
h wether tacig hold wi tl) him, or onli witnesig 
tli 8 fst. 

In ths district scul, hs lernd veri lit t ul, bs- 
coz hs wild hav nufhig tu do with hues. Hs 
cud ss nufhig sensibul in them; — spelig and 
redig wer ol a bswilderment tu him. Hs 
yuzd tu tel foes that the contend nsther sens 
nor sport, and that nun but asez delt with 
them. Ths old asez mad them and the yug 
asez studid diem tu get redi tu mac agen die 
lie ©v diem for diar yug. Az for himself, hs 
wez a colt — and hs did not wont tu be t reted 
az tha trsted yug asez. Ilwei.i hs gro up, hs 
intended tu bs sumfhig better than a doges. 

II wen hs wez seventsn ysrz old, hs cud 
scarsli rsd. And tu get him tu go tu scul 
wez olmost impessibul. Az hiz parents did not 
favur ed quash un, and az hs wez uneemmunli 


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handi at ©l clfidz ev wurc, and veri industries, 
die wer mudh. incllnd, at first, tu let him folio 
hiz inclineshun. 

But, at this tlm, it began tu be apparent 
that he bad not lernig enuf tu transact the most 
commun-ples biznes. With diis fez ov biz 
standig, die wer mudh consernd, and began tu 
plan for a dhenj that wad, at die lest, educe t. 
him tn die ecstent that he cud “red, rlt and 
slfer pritti wel” 

At that tlm, 1 woz tedhig a district scial at 
Copper Hil. Az 1 had bin awe from horn for 
yerz, 1 neu nuthig ov hiz standig at scial, nor 
hiz avershun tu hues. 1 ecspected that ther 
woz enuf Lari sun in him tuinclin him tu lern- 
ig, and that, perhaps, he woz a pritti fer scelar. 

In the fol ov 1859, I happend at bom on a 
yizit. HwTl dier, mu ther aset me h. wether I 
cud not mec arrenjments tu hav Andru with 
me in scial dip'ig the winter. At her reewest, 
I woz so surprlzd that $ began tu asc her meni 
ewestyunz. 1 aset her bwl she wisht, Andrii 
tu go awe from horn tu scial; if she wisht him 
tu go tu scial, bwl she did not send him tu the 
district scial ner hom? She replld: k 'In the 
first pies, it iz olmost impossibul tu get him 
tu go tu scial ; and then liwen he iz ther, be 
lernz nuthig; the tedher cannot guvern him, 
he ceps up a perpetual disturbans in the scial 


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with hiz prages and hiz joes, and the tedherduz 
not no hwot tu dm with him — the tedher don’t 
wont him ther.” 

Ireplld: “Wei, then, hwl net let him ste 
at bom and wurc? He iz sfhmrli grid at that.” 

She replld: “Yes! he iz grid at wurc, and 
we hav enuf for him tu dm. And he iz so fond 
ov horsez, and lie manejez them so wel, and 
gets alog so wel with the teinz, at horn or awe 
from horn, that we hardli no hou we wil <>et 
aloi) without him. But, he iz olmost a man 
and he haz no lerniij — he can scersli red and 
lit. And, 1 ecspect that this inabiliti tu i*ed 
and rlt, neu that he haz gron up olmost, iz 
wun ov the rezunz that he dislles tu go tu 
semi. And then, liwll her, (her iz so mudh tu 
cep him from semi, and from studi. He never 
tlrz at fun; and he lies eumpani so wel, and 
ol the yur) foes in the neburhud lie so wel tu 
be with him that he iz invited tu everi gather- 
irj in the neburhud and tu meni that ar farther 
awe; and he iz so mudh vizited at horn. And, 
thez thii]z wil contimi, or gro wurs, az lei) az 
he iz at horn. If he had lernii) enuf tu get 
a lor], we wud be satisfld with hiz wez ov dm- 
ig — he iz a gud hoi, and veri smart at wurc, 
and lies tu wurc — espeshalli with temz; — he 
iz an eesellent horsman. We dm not cer tu 
hav him tot the hler brandhez — we dm not 


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wont him tu be a profesfhunal man, or a biz-, 
nes man; ws onli wont him tu be a fanner: 
and, hwen hs noz snuf for that, ws wil be satis- 
fld ” 

Tu this 4 replid: “Muther! yn ar pritti 
hard tu plsz; yu hav olwaz feund folt with 
ms bscoz 4 wud go tu scul, spend ol ml Iszhip* 
moments in rsdii) and studi, and wud not go 
around with the yug foes. Non, Andria don’t, 
wont tu go tuseial, haz an avers'h un tu hues 
and studi, and wonts tu go around with ths 
foes and be sosfhal and yu find folt with him 
for hiz test and hiz practis!” 

She replid: “Wei! in point ov lernirp ws 
ar asfhemd ov him. ITs iz a smart turnd 
boi, — but olmost. a man and can hardli rsd. 
And 4 thige this iz not rlt. And I thipc hs 
ot tu bs, for a-hwll, sumhwer hwer hs can 
bs tot, at ths lsst, tu rsd, rlt and slfer wel.” 

4 replid : “But muther, yu don’t no yur hoi 
az wel az 4 dia, after ol. If yu send him tu 
scial tu ms, yu wil liaz yur farmer-boi. Hwen 
hs lernz ‘tu rsd, rlt and slfer wel,’ hs wil wont 
tu ewit ths farm, and yu wil hav mudh mor 
trubul tu csp him hsr than yu non hav tu get 
him tu go tu scial. Hwen hs ean rsd, hwen 
hs ean handul hues, hwen hs, thru ths ejensi 
ov redirj, can lern ths contents ov hues, and 


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familyarlz himself with tlis duinz evreprszent- 
ativ men, and thru ths ejensi ev rsdig, can as- 
sosihiet with ths best men ev past ejez and 
con vers with ths wlzest and best that non liv, 
hs wil net trubul yu, or eni soul tscherz with 
biz praxes, or hiz joes; hs wil net bs entertain] 
with eni eumpani hs can lind about tins nebur- 
hud; hs wil net go tu sudh gatheriijz az thoz tu 
hwidh yu se hs iz olwez invited; hs wil go tu 
a llbreri, sslect and ecstended, that hs wil at 
wuns begin tu gather, — and ther yu wil olwez 
find him — liwenever dpti duz net urj him into 
ssnz ev hi acsfhunz and into ths eumpani ev 
ths wlzest and most lernd.” 

wil tec yur bei with ms. And, % wil tel 
yu neu, that 1 wil sun speil him for ths cors ev 
llfyu hav indicetedfor him. Andru izsmart; 
and hs haz an inseshiabul dszlr tu no, tu asso- 
sfhiet with ths best, and tu bsyusful. That hs 
iz ignorant ev hues, and liwet the centen, iz a 
foltev hiz tsdherz, and ev that abeminesfhun ev 
speliij wurdz az the ar printed in hues. ' Az 
sun az hs assosfhiets with tsdherz hu can tsdh 
him, — az sun az hs bseumz sumhwet accwent- 
ed with ths net Ur ev ths diffieultiz that ar in- 
velvd in ths speliij ev eur wurdz, that difficulty 
that h iz bin ths barrier tu hiz lernig tu rsd, hs 
wil bscum fassinneted with lernig, and hs wil 
mec rapid pregres in ths siensez, in lit era tip* 


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and in tbs arts; and he wil abandon everi-fhig 
els, and bscum a soul -man.” 

She replld : “ Wei! we wont yu tu tac him 

with yu and tedh him hwot yu can; we ar not 
afrad that yu wil spoil him with lernig, or un- 
fit him for farmig, or wen him of from horsez; 
nor ar we afrad that yu wil giv him a distast 
for rolicig sosleti; nor ar we afrad that hiz ac- 
cwlrments wil inclln him tusta at horn with hiz 
hues; nor ar we afrad final hizluvev the cum- 
pani ov lerned men and hiz luv for hues wil 
led him tu refuz tu assoshiat with tine jolli and 
the fre.” 

But, befor the end ov the winter, mu flier re- 
alizd, mor than plezd her, the profesi encoudht 
in ml statment. Az sun az he end red wel, he 
woz ever at redig; and a hue woz befor hiz fas, 
or under hiz arm, or in hiz pocet, hwarever he 
went; and, muther sun had mor trubul with 
hiz untlrig dispozishun tu studi, hiz refgzal tu 
go in cumpani, and hiz zel tu be with the lerned, 
than she ever had with me. 

Hwen Andru woz told hwot arranjments 
had bin mad for him, he did not sem tu be veri 
mudh elated with the noshun that he woz tu 
go to liv with me, and tu go tu me tu seul. 

But, it woz an arranjment that muther had 
mad, and that sett u Id the matter. 


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II wen the tlm arrlvd, lie went with me tu the 
scial lieus. He did net sem tu censern himself 
hen he sfhud svcs&d nor hen he s'hud prossd. 
Nor, did 31. But hwen the tim arrlvd for him 
tu resit, he did ©fill wure! He astenisfht die 
scial — the had never sen it in that we befor! 
But we ol livd thru it. 

At the tlm, 31 wez livig at Mr. Gerslhum C. 
Serjent’s, lnaz sun Jozef wez attendig scial — 
and ho, hi the we, wez a pritti apt pupil, and a 
veri dillijent student and a veri nobul bei. He 
wez ever at hiz hues hwen wure did net pre- 
vent. Mr. Serjent himself yuzd hiz lezliur, veri 
closli, at redig. So, at eur bordig ])les, ther 
wer fen, if eni, allgrments tu tec Andria’z mind 
frem hiz hues. This wez a grat advantej, both 
tu him and tu me. Accordigli, hwen alon 
with me, at eur bordig pies, we spent eur tlm 
in studi, — in lernig and in tedhig. 

Hwen we returnd frem scial the first nit, I 
cold Andria’z attensfhun tu die ned he had ev 
peig espesfhal attensdiun tu lernig tu red. J 
shod him that, in the accwizishun ev nelej, az 
gend frem hues, redig iz essenshalli die first 
reewizit , and, witheut it, nudiig, in the accwizi- 
^hun ev lernig, frem hues, can be dun; that in 
redig, we becem conversant with the men ev 
diot ev past ajez; that in the act ev redig, we 


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mec men spec tti us; and in the act ov redig 
alend, if we red with elocwens, we spec die 
wurdzov the othorz we red tu ©urselvz, just az 
the wild hav spocen diem tu us, cud we hav 
livd in ther de, and cud hav bin cempanyunz 
or pupilz 9v them. Thus, hi lernig tu red, we 
enebul eurselvz tu assosfhiet, az it wer, with 
the best men ©v past ejez, tu lisen tu die lag- 
gwej ©v the sejez ©v old, tu die melodi ©v the 
poets ©v antic wit i, tu the tedliigz ©v the enshent 
fil©soferz, historianz and artists lua fashund 
sosieti in die past and lua hav transmitted tu 
sucsedig ejez the fhred ©v triadi around hwidh 
ol die cult iir, refill men t, sivilizeshun, and filan- 
diropi hav senterd, tu mac sosieti in former 
ejez hwutever it liaz bin, and that ©v the ]>rez- 
ent ej hw©t it n©u iz; — that the man ©v cultijr 
lua haz c©llected a select llbreri, iz enebuld tu 
assosdiiat with the best intellects ©v ol ejez; 
diat hens it iz, that the man ©v cultip* never 
wonts for select sosieti, and that he iz never 
found in the sosieti ©v dioz lua ar net refind, 
scolarli and filanthropic. For, hwen ebul tu 
red, liiz hies — die ]*ep©zitoriz ©v die diots and 
duigz ©v the best men ©v ol ejez — ar hiz asso- 
shiets; he cannot spec tu them, nor tu thoz lua 
rot them; but he me sit deun in hiz llbreri, and 
bl menz ©v diat accomplishment liwicfh we col 
redig, in hiz on vois, he me her the laggwej ©v 


His sejez, thshistorianzand the filosoferz ev old 
or thoz o v tlis prezent do; or, he me lisen tu 
die vvurdz ©v Job, or ©v jfzea, or ©v Devid, 
or ©v Jeremla; or, tu the elocwens ©v Demos- 
fhenez, Sisero, or Sent Pol; or, tu the melodi 
©v Homer, Virjil, Horas, Driden, Miltun or 
Pop; or, tu ths wizdum ©v S©lom©n, Confgsias 
or Lisfhman; ©i*, tu ths stori ©v Herodotus, 
Tasetus or Jossfus; or, alon, in hiz on studio, 
or bl ths ss-sTd, or upon ths mountin top, or in 
ths solitiid ©v ths forest or ths dezerf, hs me 
lisen tu ths Predhig ©v Jon, or tu ths Tedhigz 
©v Him lna woz born in Bethlehem ©v Judea. 

$ then red, from a fsu volipnz, selecshunz ©v 
liwot S suppozd tu bs illustretiv ©v hwot I had 
sed, — commentig, ©v cors, azeccezhuft prszent- 
ed. Qmug ml sslecsfhunz woz dis CIV Sam, 
hvvidh, after wardz, from tlis pulpit, I hav ©fen 
herd him rsd with marvelus effect upon ths 
odiens. I elozd bl rsdig ths fortsnfh chapter 
©v ths Gospel bl Jon. Gltho it woz let at nit, 
and hs must hav bin veri tlrd ©v this log dis- 
cors, — in ths rsdig ©v this scriptgr hs ssmd 
parti eijarli interested, and veri attend v. 

Ths f©lloig svenig ws rszipnd ©ur rsdig. 
And at ths bsginnig, $ cold hiz attensfhun tu 
that GueT HiNTmaNS that so sorli perplecsez, 
vecsez and eonfoundz ol thoz hu ar lernig tu 


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red. IE shod him that it iz net pessibul tu tel, 
hi the letterz with lvwidh a wurd iz ritten, 
hwet it iz proneunst — that the spelig ev the 
wurdz ev the Igglisdi laggwej ar net in accord- 
ans widi eni rolz that can he given, — net in ac- 
cordans widi sens or rezun, — and that everi 
wurd haz tu be lernd, (az w8 lern a pictig*,) 
and memorlzd az the sTn ev an Idea, an emo- 
sfhun, a sensesdiun or a fhot; — that spelig con- 
sists onli in seiij and lernig hwet letterz a wurd 
centenz. so that in rltig it, we mu plus in it, the 
simps that wil enubul eni wun ho sez it, tu no 
that that iz die pictqr, die combined un ev let- 
terz, tu hwidh tiioz ho red assln a sertin 
sound; — that the sound iz net indieeted hi the 
letterz in a wurd, and that wun must never 
depend upon the letterz tu assert en the sound; 
that the sound — the pronunsfhiesfhun — ev a 
wurd can be getten onli from die livig tedher; 
and that in lernig tu red, he wild hav tu begin, 
pesfhentli, tu lern everi wurd he met, just az he 
wud lern a pic tip*, or eni uther simbel, hiero- 
glific or devls;— that the tasc wez an ardgus 
wun, leg, werisum, and never ended hi eni Ig- 
glisdi scelar; — that diis difficult had ever bin 
in ml we,— that ^ had lernd tu red just in the 
wu IE her set forth, and that, that proses ev 
lernig wurdz and cemmittig them tu memori, 
so far, had censqmd ten timz mor ev ml tun 


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and a hundred tlmz mor ev ml enerji, than had 
the accwizisfhun ov ©1 die uther nelej that I 
had gaud from bucs; — and that perhaps he 
wud net far, in this matter, eni better than I 
had; but that it had ridhli pad me tn lern tu 
red, and that it wild pa him just az wel. 

Under thez discurajig sircumstansez, he be- 
gan biz studiz. At first, veri sloli he progrest. 
Wui'd bl wurd he wurct hiz weri we; the maz 
wez dep; but hiz industri, pener and persever- 
ans wer adecwat tn the tase. In tlm, he red 
wel enuf tu glen, widi difficulti, the meniij ev 
the other; and, with hwet he glend he wez so 
we! plezd that he wez encurajd tu accwlr mor. 
Accwizisfliun aded him in accwlrig, az it ever 
duz the industrius, — until, at last, he red pas- 
abli wel — and feu if eni, liav ever mad better 
yus ev the tlm, in rsdiy, than he did. He wez 
ever at it — bl nit — bl da — at nun — at eventld — 
at horn — abrod — in silens — aleud— with scul- 
mats — with accwentansez — but most ev ol 
with me. 

At wuns, he wez subjected tn a sistem ev 
calisfhenic maneuvers tiiat develojit a cweliti 
ev veis that wez eufenic and winnig, and a 
peuerev veis that enabuld him tu mac himself 
herd at a grat distans, and a denies ev artic- 
illasliun that mad it ezi tu distiggwisfh everi 
sillabul in everi wurd. At die sam tlm, he 


W0Z instructed in tlis art ov elocusfhun and in 
the art ov declamesfhun, ov hwidh, at wuns, lie 
becem veri fond. Thus, woz lad the foimde- 
sfhun ov that abiliti tu spec clerli, pouerfulli 
and winnigli, for hwidh he woz fevorabli non. 
Thus, tu, woz accwTrd that abiliti tu spec, with 
out fateg, that caracterlzd him az the minister 
that never tir'd at predhig.' 

That edgcesfliun dial reflnz, ecspandz and 
ennobulz the sol wurcs a mol dir) intluens upon 
the bodi that iz commensdiuret with die edgce- 
sfhun effectig it. Hwll this moldig indgens ov 
die edgeesdiunal proses iz apperent in everi 
strident under proper dril, it liaz seldum s f hon 
tu better advantej, in eni udter persun, than in 
Andru B. Larisun. ITwen at the Fleiniijtun 
Hi Scul, Andru prezented a fizec that semd tu 
be that ov an embrionic jiant, developii) letrirz 
stolvvart, aggqlar, cors and ecsedig rustic. 
Hiz her woz so cors, so strat and so brisulli 
that it semd tu be notist bl ol. At that tlm, 
students ofen wor log her; and, az he let hiz 
gro, it becem so abundant diat hiz lied and 
sdiolderz semd tu be cuverd with a huj hep ov 
flaes-culurd brisulz. Inded, so abundant woz 
it and so brisulli that it did die si>es from hiz 
hat tn hiz slholderz out beyond the edj ov hiz 
hat rim. But, under scolastic t renig, the rustic, 
farmer boi, with drupig sfliolderz, with broni 


legz and armz; toni, harsh scin; lievi brisulli, 
bronz; prominent noz ; hevi, everted lips that 
disclozd biz tefh; cors, stmt, brisulli, hwitish 
her; larj, eors liandz and club-shept figgerz, 
evolvd intu a form az erect and az simmetrie 
az a pes ev statue ri ; with limz that semd ol 
cumlines; widi a scin velveti and satin lie; 
with brouz that grasfnlli overmantuld Tz that 
luvigli and winnigli perst everi hart that gezd 
upon them; with liar ov a ridh, glossi luster, 
that rold and flod in wavz that so artisticalli 
sucseded edh uther, that no artist ever so it 
but tn admlr it; widi a countenans dint ever 
disclozd everi emoshun, and alleud everi wun 
tu Inc rlt intu the depths ov hiz sol, 

Thez rezults ov an ediicashun, in him, not 
onli shod tn gi*at advantaj, but wer the menz 
olso, in part, bi hwidh he effected so much az a 
specer. Upon the staj, or in the pulpit, hiz 
apperans woz impozig; and yet attractiv, will- 
ing and .artistic. Hiz muvments wer gresful, 
and ever in accordans widi the rialz ov art. 
He spoc az much and az effectual li b! hiz figqr 
and hiz pantomlm az bi hiz month. Hwil liwot 
be sed woz olwaz proper and sijted tn the ecea- 
zhun, die vois widi hwidh he s]ioc woz pur, cler, 
distiget and swasiv, — liwil the postip* ov the 
bodi illuminatig hiz statments, and corroberetig 
hiz venz, consplrd tn awacen in thoz hu herd 


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and so him emosfhunz Identical with, or cin- 
dred tn, thoz that prompted him tn spec. 

Upon the staj or in die j>nlpit, he wisfht ©j 
thoz thirjz diat ynzhiialli stand betwen the 
specer and hiz odiens, remiavd. Hens, die 
dese ©v hiz pulpit wez ynzhiialli set awe, 
and he stud befor hiz odiens in ful relef — from 
the solz ov hiz shoz tn the crest ov hiz liar. 
And, az he predht, everi part ov him spoc — hiz 
bodi. bed, fas and limz ever conspirii) tn illus- 
trat, ini pres and enfors hvvot hiz mouth so elo- 
cwentli utterd. 8ven hiz dres — plan az it 
woz — -cens pil'd tu help him toe. Thus, in an 
addres, everi diir) that woz in him and everi 
diii] that woz about him, bl hiz ediicasfhun, 
woz mad tu consplr tu ecspand, illiiminat, em- 
bellish and enfors hiz them. And yet widi 
sudh ez and sudh gras did he perform ol hiz 
oratoric wurc that edh sentens semd tu fol onli 
b! the wat ov die troth it contend. 

Qltho dier woz olwaz a lit till harshnes in hiz 
sintacs — hwen specif ecstemporaneusli — and 
this, az a rial, woz hiz manner ev specir) in 
public — espesfhalli hwen predhir) — hiz denies 
in articqlashun, eloewens in utterans and pouer 
ov ecspreshun never fald tu eaptivat thoz ho 
herd him, and tu hold hiz odiens, intent upon 
hwot-ever he wisht tu sa, until he ended hiz 
spedh. 4 yuzd tu her it sed ov him: “He 


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never tirz ©v predhir) and liiz ceggregashun 
never tirz ©v 1 i sen i rp A n d , h wen h s h a z prsdht 
an ©ur and a haf, biz v©is iz az clsr, and bs iz 
az distinct li herd, and bs semz tn bs az frs 
fr©rn fatsg az hwen he began; and, bwen bs 
baz prsdht an ©ur and a haf, or tu ©urz, biz 
odiens iz az fhuroli attentiv and az intent tu 
catdh everi wurd, az (ha wud bs, if tha wer 
bsrii] him up©n a subject upon tbs eemprshen- 
shun ©v lnvidh thar livz dspended.” 

Indsd, bs w©z truli elocwent; and bs ever 
spoc or red bl tbs nalz ©v Qrt. In rsdig a 
dhapter, or a him, frem tbs pulpit, bs never 
fald tu mac an impresfhun, and tu win tbs at- 
tenshun ©v ol hu herd him. It wez an ©b- 
scip-li ritten porsfhun ©v scriptip*, if bs did n©t 
so rsd it that its fill msnir) w©z vividli apparent 
tu ol. And, unciatbli wurded wez a him if bs 
did net so rsd it that its melodi fhrild everi 
hart bia herd it. 

Wuns upon a tlm ws attended dhurdh in 
Nsu Brunswic Invar onli a fit, if eni, ecsept 
tbs pastor, tbs Rev. H. F. Smith, D. D., mi 
us. Az I wisht Andru tu bs unnotist; or, 
rather, az I did net wont him tu bs asct tu 
prsdh, or tu tac part in tbs servisez, bscoz ©v 
biz fsbul helth at that tlm, and bscoz ©v hiz 
wont ©v ecspsriens in prsdhig, ws did net en- 
ter dis dhurdh until tha wer siijiij tbs first him. 


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But, ©nr project fold. The pastor recognlzd 
us az sun az ws enterd the rum. At wuns he 
cam tn met us, insisted that Andru sluid be 
seted with him in the pulpit, and that he sfhud 
red die necst Him. It woz nether the pies nor 
the tlm tu cwarrel; so $ sat in the pq in hwidh 
the seeston plest me, and Andru follod die 
pastor intu die pulpit. 

At the tlm ov our entrails and livvTl die pas- 
tor woz redip, the ©dims semd tu be veri un- 
ezi — fidjeti and rustics, —so mudh so that I feld 
tu her livvot, dliapter woz announst; and I 
cud her veri littul that he red. But; a chenj 
follod liwen the vug man began tu red. The 
him began — 

u Roc ov ejez, cleft for me, 

Let me hid mi-self in the!” 

Befor he had redht die end ov the diird lin 
ov die him, the attensliun ov ©1 semd tu be 
arrested and the stilnes semd tu be ©ful. It 
cem so sudden, and it woz so complet, that 
die dhanj woz startlig tu me. It semd tu gro 
mor intens until he completed the last lin; — 
and then, az the cadens woz brigig woter intu 
the Iz ov meni, die stilnes becam panful. The 
corister, and die udier memberz ov die cwlr, 
had bin tu mudh occqpid widi die reder, and 
the redig, tu be redi tu act thar part, and dier 
semd tu be sudh a suspens in biznes that a 


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snnl Lue pozzesfhun ov ml fas, and J vvez veri 
fsrfnl that it wud 1)8 ssn bl sum. But, sun the 
organ began tn pel forth, folterigli, and die 
him, at first, woz sug febli. But, sun An- 
dru’z vois joind the voisez ov the cwlr, and the 
him woz sug “with a wil.” Dqrig the sigig, 
over the voisez ov the evvlr, non and then, J 
herd hiz vois, melodius, eler and strog — just 
enuf til fir everi herer with a wish that he end 
sig and tae part in this veri enjoiabul occa- 
zhun. 

Bl recwest, he pronounst the benedicshun. 
Az we wer dismist, a veri venerahul lucig old 
man hu sat with hiz wlf in the set necst be for 
me, turnd tu me and sed: “Pardun me if t 
mac tu fre with yn az yn ar a stranjer! But, 
can yu tel me hia that jentulman iz?” J re- 
plld, az modestli az $ end: “Yes; diat iz An- 
dru B. Lari sun.” 

The old man and hiz ladi wer lucig me in 
die fas with much ernestnes; and hi diat tlm 
several utherz had gotten az ner tn me az tha 
end, apparent li tn lern hu die yug man woz, 
liwen die old man sed: “AVel! he iz a yug 
man ov grat promis. Hiz wurdz ar clodid 
with grat poner.” 

The old jentulman pruvd tn be the Rev. 
G. S. Web, D. D., than hum a mor eloewent 


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predher haz seldum bin found a mug thoz hu 
hav stud up tu proclem the doctrinz ov the. 
Tedher ov Gallile. 

Not onli liwll at scul and collej, but dqrig 
hiz hoi lif, spelig — die lernig ov neu wurdz — 
vvoz a veri bete noir tu him. And dgrig die 
last yer ov hiz lif, he told me that it had cost 
him mor tun tu lern the littul that he neu about 
Igglish, becoz ov the cacografi ov die laggwej, 
than it had tu accvvlr cal the rest that he neu ; 
that he act go Hi neu mor about Latin and Grec 
than he did about Igglish; that it sernd tu him 
that wun cud no but littul ov Igglisih until 
he vvoz jiritti vvel accwented with Latin and 
Grec, and that the Igglisfli laggwej semd tu 
him tu be a grammarles laggwaj — from die al- 
fabet diruout, — but particglarli so in the spelig 
ov its wurdz. 

Az a student, Andru woz laborius, and not 
difficult tu direct. He semd tu be entiili fre 
from thoz morbid nosfliunz respectig elect iv 
studiz that we so jeneralli find in yug men hu 
ar secig an educeshun. He had no preconsevd 
noshunz az tu hvvot he ot tu studi tu fit him 
for hiz lTf wurc, nor eni ferz that he wud west 
hiz tlm in jirosecgtig studiz diat wud be yusles 
tu him; nor, that it woz yusles tu be liberal li 
edqceted; nor, that he wud ever no to mudh; 


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iHDr, dint it wild tee t u leg tu accwlr an edg- 
cesfhun. He semd tu hav a hi regard for 
Tedherz, and lie semd til as sqm dint die luj wer 
educated nsu lieu tu edijcet utherz. Accordig- 
li, hwetever, in a curriculum evstudiz, the wer 
redi tu tedh, he wez redi tu studi. And, at 
studi, he never neded urjig. 

Oltho he semd tu hav no preferens ev studiz, 
^ thigc he acewlrd Mathematics mor redili than 
eni udier brandh. And, remember several 
insidents respeetig biz mathematical acumen 
that ar not-wurdii. Wun ev them J vvil re- 
let. — H wen, J woz actig az tutor ev Mathe- 
matics in the Flemigtun Hi Scul, it wez eur 
custum tu devot the afternmn ev edli Wenzde 
tu Litereri ecsersizez until ol had red essez or 
deelemd, (az that order ev ecsersizez recwird), 
and dien yuz die remender ev the tlm in revgig 
the ivuispensabulz ev a mathematical edg- 
cesdiun, — sudh az the Tebulz ev Wets and 
Mezhgrz, the Tebul ev Sundriz nesesseri tu 
an Arithmetician, the fundamental prinsipulz 
invelvd in the for nalz ev Arithmetic, canselle- 
sfhun, the fundamental prinsipulz invelvd in the 
eestraeCiun ev ruts, &c. &c. ©v cors, die 
Litereri ecsersizez wer cenducted hi the tutor 
ev Laggwej, Mr. Jen S. Higginz, A. M. ; but, 
tu conduct the mathematical ecsersizez fel tu 
me. Az a rul, dgrig thez afternunz, ther wer 


net a feu vizitorz — and efen the odiens rum, 
livvidli wud set abeut 300, vvez uncumfurtabli 
fill. Tlier wer sum over a lmndre<l students, 
and rneni ev diem luid bin in scul leg enuf 
tn accwlr a pritti gud nelej ev Aljebre, Jeem- 
etri, Menshuresfhun, Surveig &c. &t\, and tn 
attract sum attenshun In we ev dier liggwal 
accwlrments. Sum ev diem predht nen and 
then. 

Wun Wcnzde afternun the liens wez un- 
yuzhualli did with vizitorz. The essez and 
deelames'hunz wer veri satisfactory and die 
litereri wurc wun much apploz. But, liwen 
the mathematic revu began, rneni hu had med 
a u sh!n” at an esse, or a declameshun, neu 
nied fekirz. it had efen bin so befor, and so 
nun semd si/rpuzd: but ther wer students ther 
hu never feld if the cud help it ; and hu felt 
ofulli mortitld, if die med a felur, — espesJhalli 
duriij a Wenzde afiernun. 

Durig thez afternunz, ©1 in the scul, without 
respect tu ej or the tlm the had bin in scul, 
wer regarded memberz ev the sem clas. No 
cwestyun wez asct that eni pupil had net had, 
az a subject for studi, or had net sen elucidat- 
ed, in the clas-rum, prior tu diat Wednesde en 
hwich die revu eccurd. Tu rneni ev die older 
wunz, rneni ev thez cwestyunz had cum so 
eten diat die wer tlrd ev them. Meni llct the 


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ecserslz, bseem ecspert in givig anserz, solu- 
sfhunz, i bust rush unz et cetera ; but, sum d red- 
ed the ordeal. It \v©z net onli a test ev math- 
ematic acumen, but olso an epport.iputi tn 
sdio hen mudh ev hwet the wer tot the remem- 
berd and lien redi the wer tu put it in practis. 

Qfter meni had bin interrogated respect ig 
uther points, wun vvez aset tu giv a solushun 
ev Cqb Rut. He, at wuns, began tu toe sum, 
but sun so that he wez net adeewat tu the 
tasc, cenfest it and sat deun. The necst 
wun — afellobu doted en mathematic accwu- 
ments, and hu had bin surveig sum befor be 
cem tu eur scul — get up tu the blac-bord, mud 
sum marcs, toct sum, sed be neu lieu, — but 
just then be didn’t du it. — The necst, with 
mudh parsiflezh toct and tigurd until he wez 
la ft tu sllens. An uther did but littul better; 
sum did wars. At last, J aset if eni wun wud 
velunter tu giv a lipdd solushun ev Cub Rut. 
Ther vvez sllens; and ^ wez sorli vecst. I thot 
it luct bad for me az a tedher ev mathematics. 

Ctmug the gests wer die clerjimen ev the thre 
Churdhez in the pies, and a mug the loyerz 
pivzent vvez the lien. Peter I. Clare, a veri 
aeeemplisht and a veri scelarli old loyer, hu 
formerli laid bin wun ev the judjez ev the 
Suprem Cort evA. J. hu aroz and steted that 
ther must be sum wunz in the odious hu cud 


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gi v a satisfactori solusfhun ev that problem 
and that it vvez wurth the effort tn eni vvun hu 
wud trl ; that just the cTnd ov wurc the wer 
recwlrd tu du, woz just the cTnd that ol hia in- 
spected tu be biz nes men nsded. tu mac them 
redi, ecspert and aceurat. 

Az he woz sit tir) deun, Andru aroz, and 
prossded toord the. bord. The bord upon 
hwidh 0)1 problemz wer solvd on WVnzda after- 
nun, woz bac ov the rostrum hwidh eest ended 
entlrli acres tiie end ov the rum, in frunt ev 
the odiens. U|)en ttiis rostrum,® woz shindig. 
Az he woz cumig, ® gru veri agcsfhus. 1 Is had 
bin in that scul but a feu wees, had not bin a 
student ov Qrifhmetie mor than ten munffis, ol 
told, and had had veri littul eespsriens at wurc 
befor an odiens. ® had sum contidcns in the 
“blud;” that helpt ms, just then, amazigli. 
O minit later, ® did not ngd eni help, — it woz 
apparent that he woz not onli goig tn giv a far 
solusfhun ov the problem, but that he woz en- 
tlrli master ov the situasdiun, and woz goig tu 
du the wurc in a wa that wud met the approv- 
al ov ol. Az he stept upon the rostrum, he 
piet up a cubic bees that he had helpt me mac 
for the veri pur pus for hwidh he woz then 
goig tu yuz it. Az he proseded, he dru partli 
upon the bocs, partli upon the blae-bord — no 
faster than he ecspland, and he ecsplend no 


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faster than he dru. Hiz figurz wer so wel 
constructed, and so wel sfhaded, that thar re- 
lasfhunz wer szili apparent, tu ©1, and hiz lai)- 
gwaj so fittir), so presls, so cler and so wel ar- 
ticulated, that eni wunz hu cud comprehend 
sudh vvurc wer dellted tu folio him. 

Hwen he woz dun, and woz plasiq the craon 
upon the rac, apploz cam from ol parts ov the 
rum, and bsfor he redht hiz set the old Judj 
had a gen rizen and woz asciq odiens. 

He sed he had never befor witnest so cler a 
solusfhun ov the problem — not even from pro- 
fessorz ov mathematics, and tqtorz log ecsperi- 
enst in tedhiq. — Then foiled sum apt remarcs, 
encurajiij die yuq men and yug wimen tu yuz 
wel thar llm hwll under instrucsdiun, and es- 
pesfhalli tu mac the best ov sucdi oj>portunitiz 
az wer prezented that, and u flier, Wenzda af- 
ternunz. He concluded hiz remarcs bT saig : 
“That rustic lad, liuever he ma be, haz rar 
mathematic jenyus, and indomitabul curaj. 
He merits an ecstended and an elaborat edq- 
ca^hun. It iz a credit tu eni man, or tu eni 
wiiman, tu havsudh a bru flier ; an onurtu eni 
parent tu hav sudh a sun.” 

Dqrig hiz hoi preparatori cors, he carrid of 
az meni mathematic onurz az eni uther wun in 
flie scul ; and hwen he past from mi instruc- 


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shun up tu collej, 1 ofen herd gv him az the 
fello hu wez olwez redi tu attnc eui orijinal 
problem tbs professor gv Mathematics nnt of- 
fer, and that he vvgz pritti shur tu debt the 
professor and tu dia himself credit, in the un- 
der! ecig. 

He enterd the Flemigtun Hi Scial, in Octo- 
ber, I860. Her, in the persunz gv the stu- 
dents, he met meni conjenial spirits. Her, ei- 
gen, lie vvgz deli assosfhieted with hiz buzum 
company un, Jozef Serjent,* for hum he olwez 
manifested the blest, regard. Tu him, the tlm 
he spent in the Hi Scial wez a centinqus test. 
He llct the sosleti gv hiz fello students, he 
llct hiz studiz, he llct the plus. He horded 
at the sein pies at hwidh J horded, and he 
rumd with me. 

Durig die tun he livd witii me, at Copper 
Hil, he hecem ecsersizd respect ig relijun, and 

* Jozef Serjent, sun ev Gershum C. Serjent, a farmer Im 
dwelt ner Flemigtun, wez born Gpril 6tli, 1843. He prepaid 
for Cellej at ml effis. He enterd the Yuniversiti at Lnisburg, 
Pa., September, 1864. after gradn,etig, lieengejdin agricultgr 
and stec tendig. He neu eccryriz the Serjent homsted, ner 
Flemigtun. Sins die tract liaz bin in hiz handz, he liaz erected 
upen it a veri speslius barn, 44ft. x 100ft., with a lentu 20 ft. 
wkl, and such uther eut-bildigz and maslieneri for agricultrir 
and the cer ev stec az “the timz” afford. He iz aewiet man ev 
brod veuz, and ev wid infliiens. 

Dtp-ig the last yer at cellej he wez the rum-met ev A. B. Lar- 
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wez baplizd, hi the Rev. S, Sprenl, intu the 
Baptist Churdh at Sandi Ridj,J Febriaeri 1860. 
He, at vvuns, began tu be a zelus wurcei* in 

X In t±Lis narrativ, wer >E net tu s« a feu wurdz respectig die 
Sandi llidj church and the naburliud that envirenz it, $ wud dii 
discredit tu mlself and injustis tu the pepul amug hum i gru tu 
man hud, and hi buz inflq,ens, tu a gret eestent, mi form wez 
molded and ml caracter shept. 

Tu me, Sandi Rid j — its Church, its pepul, itsseil, itsatmesfer — 
iz wun ev die secred thirjz ev erfh. In die church at Sandi Ridj 
first herd die gespel precht. Tlier i herd that argg.mentativ, e'r- 
nest Rev. Jorj Yug; die pius, devoted, enfhqziastic Jesliua Ru; 
the sistematic, scelarli J. J. Bccer ; die ezi Timberman; and the 
zelus, ardent Spreul. Tlier first so, in Sunde Scul, a w©l 
map — the map ev Palestin. Tlier, under thatlerned, pedagojic, 
ardent, elocwent Jesliua Ru, $ tuc mi first lessun in jeegrafi. 
Freni die sem instructor, if get mi first lessunz in ethics, in die 
prinsipulz ev fheeloji, in bibul liistori, in vicerius atonment. 
Her, tu, that sem gud man, hi liiz on egzampul and liiz ardent, 
elocwent addres, awecend in me an ardent, wurcii) dezir tu be 
©1 that i cud be, in manlines, for die furtherans ev the c©z ev 
hrpnanit.i and the Cristyan Relijun. Her, so erli in lif, under 
the techiijz ev tiiis gud man, first s© that spare — fent at first — 
hwieh sloli developt intu a flam, dien britend intu a becun 
hwicli haz illrpnind mi we, amid ©1 its windiijz and its labirin- 
fhin cemplecsitiz, its ups and its deunz, its shadoi plesez and its 
brit ereaz, its glumi grettoz and its brilyant ecspansez, its dirj- 
gulz and its felz, its dare, diorni, sleui wild-wudz and its leg, 
plezant, lucsq,riant vistaz, thru palasez and huts, thru cettejez 
and demisilz, at the Forum, amid die vulgar threij, upen the 
stej and at die Techer’z desc, at the bedsid ev the sic and at die 
ceucli ev the diiq : livven it wez fhot, hi ©1, that i wez passig diru 
the Valli ev Deth, and liwen it semd tu me tiiat i wez emerjig 
frein the ded : and, dq/ig ©1 thez yerz, it haz nether flicerd nor 
gron dim it haz ever burnd with a streg, constant flein, that 
stil groz in britnes and in brilyansi ev splendor. 

Her first i s© the'advantuj ev a pius lif in the persun ev mi 
muther, in diat ev Decunz D. Laru, S. Sliadigger, D. Wilsun, 


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the dhurdh, and sun ftiot that it woz hiz dipi 
tu prepar for the ministri. Az sun az hiz con- 
vicslhunz respectig the ministri vver anneunst, 
hiz parents, and sain ov hiz brutherz and sis- 
terz, t rid tu disswad him from thatcolig. Tha 
reminded him ov the fact that a minister, es- 
peslialli a baptist minister, woz, az a rial, pev- 
erti bound, and ferd badli everi da; dial starv- 
. ig or beggig stard everi wan ov the craft 
sc war in the fas; and that, az a rial, tha led a 
IT f ov niizeri, temig with com plants and loded 
with senslnar. Bat hiz convicsfhanz depend, 
and he tlnalli rezolvd dial he wild prech. 

The project plezd me, and ^ encarajd him. 
1 told him the colig woz a hi wan, and that, 

and D. Butter fos ; in that ev ths fethful Jen Hunt, the fervent 
Ellen Huge, the deveut Edward Nelor, the ardent Jorj Ritten- 
lieus, the constant Jen Van Dola, the estemd Robert Dilts, (thru 
the gespel ev Crist liberated from the fhroldum ev the bol), the 
ejed, egzempleri Cafherin Dilts ; and in the livz ev meni utherz 
liu, oltlio lesser lits, hav intlpenstme in everi step that S liav te- 
cen ditrig thez 40 yerz and mor. 

Intu this Church hav bin baptizd mi muther and mi father 
and ol mi brutherz anti sisterz. In the beriig ground bi it mi 
mu tiler iz led ; and tu the sent ground we canid mi bruther An- 
dm. Tlier tu we berid the lamented Charlz M. Le, M. D., and 
ther i hav ever legd tu pies the remenz ev everi frend that semd 
tu secret! for u tiler greundz. 

Beneth the hip trez that formd the forest grov that scirted it 
on Hie est, tE hav enjeid the bami brezez ev meni a Sunde morn- 
ig. Tlier (E hav enjeid meni a soshal toe, meni a plus, winnig 
luc, meni a sej, Cristyan counsel, meni a sevig wornig, meni a 
gidig advis. Ther tu, in the ardor ev yufh, and in the thirst 


az a biznes, it, did not nesesserili brig starve- 
sfhan; that everi leborer vvoz wurthi ev hiz hlr, 
and til at gud prgdherz ferd az wed az uther 
<»ud foes, and that die ot not til wisfh tn fer 
eni better. * trld tn point out the nedz, in hiz 
ces espesdialli, ov a fliuro preparesfhun, an am- 
pul educesdiun, not onli in thozstudiz yuzitalli 
pursqd In thoz lua wer studiig for the ministri 
but ©Iso in the slenscz and in medisin. 

Aceordigli invited him tn go with me tn 

for yusfulnes and an activ carer, * hav toct with ml cemradz ev 
the feutgr, ecsclienjd venz, and devlzd rneni ev the planz that 
hav serv’d tu bridj the span that liaz ecstended frem that tim til 
tu de. 

Ther wez an atmesfer pervedig that church, and tile nebur- 
liud that envirend it, that w r ez net onli salg,brius, but cendgsiv 
tu meral w'urfh and intellectixa 1 cultg,r. Ther wez, in thepepul 
ev Sandi Rij, a sturdines ev caracter, a plus regard, a legig for 
self-impruvment, a dezir tu els vet sosieti, a zel tu ed and tu im- 
pruv ech uther, a thirst tu no and tu be lifted abuv prejgdis, 
and an eppozishun tu vis and tu eni distigeshun sev that hwich 
iz best upen meral wurfh, that acted and reacted upen ther pre 
jeni in such a we that the pepul therabeuts hav bin leg and just- 
li credited for gud meralz and much intellijens. Dqrig the last 
fifti yerz, this neburhud haz bin espeshalli noted for the num- 
ber ev its sitizenz hu hav accwird a liberal educeshun and hu 
hav attend tu a creditabul standig in the verius profeshunz. 
At the Baptist Assoshieshun hwich cenvend at Riggoz in Octo 
her, 1888, dgrig a cenferens respectig the edqceshunal in likens 
ev die several churchez the Rev. Jorj Yug, over 80 yerz ev ej 
and then for the third tim pastor ev thissed church, sed : “San- 
di Rij Church and ceggregeshun hav senteut in or men liu hav 
tecen hi standig in lernig, literatim tile arts and siensez, and in 
tile lerned profeshunz than eni uther church ev its ej and siz in 
Gmerica.” And, ther wer net a feu prezent hu wer preperd 
with decipnents tu veriti hiz stetments. 


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ths medical collej at Jsnsva, Y., and ther 
tec a regular core in medisin, bsfoi attendig a 
litereri collej. He vvez then about redi tu en- 
ter a litereri colloj, and az bs had olredi red 
meni thigz reletii) tn medisin, hs so that hs end, 
in about tia ysrz, finish tlis cors prsscrlbd for 
medical men, and then, if hs wisfht, hs cud rs- 
zum ths studi ov ths laggwejez. Accord igli, 
in October, 1861, hs matricifieted in ths med- 
ical collej at Jsnsva, ]Y. Y., az a student ov 
medisin, under ths prsseptorsfhip ©v hiz bru til- 
er, G. II. Lari sun, M. D. 

In this collej, hs sun bscem a z fevurabli 
non az hs woz in ths Flemigtun III Scul, — az 
vvel tu ths Faculti az tu ths students. Hs llct 
ths studi ov medisin, and in it, med rapid pre- 
gres. In Janueri, 1864, ths collej conferd up- 
on him ths dsgrs, M. D. 

At that tun, ther woz an urjent dsmand for 
Surjunz and Fizishanz tu serv in ths armi, in 
tiis wor ov ths Rsbelyun. Accord igli, hs ©f- 
ferd hiz servisez az a Surjun and Fizisihan ; 
and, upon the 18th ov JulT, 1864, bl contract, 
woz acsepted az assistant Surjun, and assind 
dipi at Carver’z Jeneral Hospital, in Wasfhig- 
tun, D. C. In September, hs woz assind difii 
at Forts Qlbani, Runyan and Greg. — In Oc- 
tober, hs woz assind duti at Fort Wudberi, 
Ya., — a pies seurjd with meleria. 


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Az a Fizisihan and Surjuu, hiz record iz ec- 
sellent. Clmug the soljerz, he wez veri pepq- 
lar and gra tli respected az a Fizisfhan, Surjuu 
and Cristyan jentulman. Hiz candor enjend- 
erd cenfidens, and hiz scil wun the estem ev oh 
Hwll at Fort Wudberq he incurd Intermit- 
tent Fever hwidh gretli redust hiz vital forsez. 
Hwll sufferiq this fever, theecspozhqr insident 
tu hiz vocasfhun indust Pluio-nqmonia -^lwidh 
i*ezulted in plqritic adhezhunz and a retrograd 
metamorfasis ov parts ev the parencima ev the 
lirgz, fVem hwidh he never entlrli recuverd. 

Hiz contract wez annuld at hiz on recwest, 
November 21st, 1864. 

Hwen he had so far cenvalest that he cud 
travel, he returnd tu ml heus, at Riggoz — a 
rec — a travelig sceletun, — su fieri g, even then, 
a trubulsum cof, and a parecsizum pecqlyar 
tu Intermittent Fever, everi secund da. 

Under tretment, he parsfhalli recuverd from 
thez afflicsfhunz, rezqmd hiz studi ev Latin and 
Grec, and in September, 1865, enterd the Fresfh- 
man Gas ev the Yuniversiti at Lnisburg, (non 
the Bucnel Yuniversiti) at hwidh he centinqd 
until Febriaeri, 1867, hwen he wez prostrated 
bl hemorrej ev the lugz. He cam tu ml heus 
for tretment; and, az son az he had sumhwet 
recuperated, he rezqind hiz studiz, and, under 


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ml direesliunz, finislit Hie studiz ev biz Junyur 
y er. At th 8 beginnig ev the term ev biz Sen- 
yuryer, be agen returnd tu eellej, and remend 
until Februeri, 1869, bvven be vvez agen pres- 
t reted widi hemorraj ev the lugz. 

He neu abandend die eellej cors, eem tu ml 
liens for tretment, and bvven be bad sumbwet 
regend biz stregfh, be settuld for a tim, at 
Lambert vil, !N\ J. with biz bruther Jorj, in die 
praetis ev medisin. This vocesfhun be llet and 
biz pesfhents llet him ; but lie bad bin eold tu 
predh, and tu enter the ministri be ever lei]d. 
Hvvil engejd in die praetis ev medisin, be efen 
predht; and, bwTl at eellej and durii) \ eee- 
sfhunz, be efen predht; and, az a predher, he 
wez veri aeseptabul, — alTe tu the old and tu 
the yui). 

Andru B. Larisun vvez, frem die beginnin, 
Identifid widi the gret Cburdh muvment bvvidli 
began, at Rir]goz, N. J., in Mardh, 1863. For 
for yerz, be, Cbarlz M. Le, M. D., and mlself 
wer the onli vvunz engejd in it; and, dqrir) diis 
tim, the onli wunz liu neu enidiir) abeut it. 
Diiriij die Sprii) and Summer ev 1863, oldio be 
vvez a student ev medisin under G. H. Lari- 
sun, be vvez at mi effis, mudli ev die tim ; per- 
haps the mor, becoz Cbarlz M. Le, bu bad bin 
biz elasmet in the Flemigtun Hi Scul, wez then 
a student ev medisin in ml effis. Both be and 


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Le wer memberz ev the Baptist Churdh, and 
both wer zelus in tbs coz ev tbs Crist y an Re- 
lijun. Both toot wel ; both wurct wel. Both 
wer fethfnl tn eni dharj ; both, 1 cud trust tu 
eni tliig, under eni sireumstansez 

Diiriij ttiB munths Februeri. Marcfh and Q- 
pril, 1 1 i v d in, and had nil effis in tbs Hotel, in 
tbs villej ev Riggoz. Ls horded with ms, and 
bvven Andria wez steii) with us, hs bad a ter 
dhans tu ss bwet sosTsti, at Riggoz, wez. 

At that tim, ther wez no dhurdh edifis in 
Rirjgoz ; tbs nsrest dhurdh bildig wez the wun 
at Plezant Corner hwiefh iz about a mil norfh- 
sst ev Riggoz; — tbs wun in bwidh the pepul 
ev tlis Yunited 'First Churdh ev Am wel wur- 
sthipt. In tbs villej, wez a bildii) that wild 
“sst” about 150 foes. It had bin biltaz a stee 
censern — tu bs yuzd for rnstigz ev eni cind — 
Llsiumz, Political Mstiijz and tbs lie. It wez 
cold, “The Sesfhun Rum,” az if tbs bilderz 
had ecspeeted ths seslhun ev the Prezbitsrian 
Churdh tu hold ther mstiijz in it. But, the nem 
wez a misnomer — His sesfhun never met in it, 
Heuever, tbs Pastor ev tbs Yunited First 
Churdh ev Amwel yuzd tu predh in it, wuns 
in for wscs, and tbs villej Sunde-scul yuzd tu 
bs conducted in it. 

Ths Trustsz ev this bildiij vver ether mem- 
berz ev ths Prezbitsrian Churdh, or els so streg- 


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li incllnd tn it that the wer cerful tu net let til e 
bildig tu eni persunz hu wer net perfectli in 
accordans with the Prezbiterian “feth and prac- 
tis.” The Methodist pepul yuzd tu trl tu se- 
dip* it eccezhunalli for a pies tu wursfhip; but, 
die rerli sucseded. Uther denemineshunz 
yuzd tu trl tu rent it for a pies ev wurslhip — 
hwen it wez net eccqpld bl the Prezbiterianz 
for that purpus. But (he did net sucsed. In 
fact, prior tu 1863, the pepul ev Prezbiterian 
“feth and practis” had entlr control ev ol the 
public bildigz in and about Rirjgoz, and the 
olmost inveriabli refiizd tu let them tu eni 
bedi az plesez ev wurship; ther swe wez un- 
disputed, — and the did ther best tu cep it so. 

At that tlm, the Pastor ev the Yunlted First 
Churdh ev Amwel, and the “JBislwp” far and 
wTd, wez die Rev. Jeceb Circpatric, D. D., a 
Veri elocwent predher, a veri diplomatic dhurdh 
effiser, a veri sageshus pastor, a veri ardent 
advocet ev Prezbiterianizum, a veri vehement 
eppozer ev eni sect ecsept the Prezbiterian, 
and, in die manejment ev eni affer that had no 
relijun in it, az cen az a brier and az cunnig az 
a fees. Bl ol biz neburip pastorz, ev liwet- 
ever denemineshun, he wez hlli reted for cun- 
niij — for focsines. He studid them ol, edh wun 
ev them, mor than he did the Blbul, and he neu 
just hwet wez in edh wun ev them and just 


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hwet lis cud du with edh wun ev them. Q1 ev 
diem lieu hiz reppteslhun for cunnip, focsi prac- 
tizes, and ol 9 v them ferd him. 

It W 0 z tiis glori ev this old fello that, in and 
about Ripgoz, he held cemj)lst swe; that with 
him. no wun derd tu dispip die relijus lit tu 
the territori ; that no wun even derd tu attempt 
tu secip* a temporeri aludip pies in liwidh vn- 
molested , he shud wursflhip God az he plezd. 

Unmolested I se, — becoz, if peradventip*, eni 
bold Methodist, or eni bold clerjimen gv eni 
ytlier dsneminasfhun, derd tu secip* a scul-heus 
for the purpus ev predhip, and appointed a tTm 
for relijus servis therin, he lieu that wun ev 
hiz odiens wud be the Rev. Doctor Gircpatric; 
tu wedh tu se that he a spilt” nuthip that wild 
centaminet hiz se or bishopric, or rez eni in- 
cvviriz into the netip* or the merits ev uther 
feths; and tu se that, if he derd tu put forth, 
or happend tu “spil out,” eni thip pecplyar tu 
hiz cred, he gatherd it up and tuc it awe with 
him. And, in ces he unwittipli put forth, or 
slept out, eni ev the pepplyar tenants ev hiz 
cred, the Doctor, in the most pollt, and in the 
most luvip we, wud help him gather it ol up 
and wurc it cerfulli into Prezbiterianizum, — 
so that h wen the intruder wez gen, ther wud 
be no tresez ev eni uther “It” or eni utiier 
“izum” in or about the pies. 


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So hs mancjd affarz within biz Bishopric. 
Everi vln and everi fig-trs bslerjd tu him. If 
eni vizitorz, or eni Itinerants, happend tn step 
under tbs shad ev ether, the wer wornd tu be 
earful that the left no droppigz; and, lest flier 
shud bs sum, even so smol az tu escep tbs no- 
tis ev flioz les sagashus, tbs Doctor found it 
important tu bs on tbs ground himself; and 
then, if eni flair) happend, hs cud hav it clsrd 
up at wuns, — er flis plas cud bscum pel lilted. 
And then, ol this wud bs dun vvifli sudh an ar 
ov luv and cemplesensi; and, wifli sudh an ar 
ov accemmodashun and polltnes, that flis viz- 
i t ix) clei*jiman not onli fald ev tbs inflitens bs 
sot tu lsv behind, but bscam so disgusted with 
hiz fakir in macir) an effort tu introdiis biz 
“izum,” and accwlrd sudh an ineffabul con- 
tempt for flis old bislwp” that bs just cen- 
cliided that ths “old fello ” mlt hav hiz vlnz and 
hiz fig-trsz tu dia az bs plszd with them — and 
that bs wud not stultifl himself agen bl tacii) 
shelter under them, mudh les bl trlig tu acsi- 
dentalli spil out sum ov biz “izum” hwen flis 
Doctor wez prezent. 

This clnd ov yuzaj ths Doctor ever practist ; 
and, in its rszults, hs gratli glorid, espeshalli 
tu hiz bruther Clerjimen ov ths Prezbitsrian 
fath. And 5 hav herd him du a littul ov it 
miself. Ov cors, hs yuzd tu fhigc that so in- 


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effcnsi v and so ineffisdient a fello az ^ woz, 
wild 1)8 a sef repezitori ov hiz ecspresfhunz ov 
vaniti, and gv van glori ; hens, hs ynzd tu sz 
himself a littul wans in a hwll hi descantig, til 
ins, hiz planz, hiz mefhodz gv wurc, hiz adhev- 
ments, and hiz plezhqrz. 5 remember a littul 
toe that 5 vvil introdgs az an episod. Wuns 
he returnd from sum noted metigz gv the dig- 
niteriz gv the Prezbiterian dhirrdh that Gecurd 
in Bolt.imor, in hwidh he pled a prominent part. 
He woz in hi gle and overfloig with toe, but 
he neded step. The necst mornig he cold at 
ml ofhs tu se “Gud mornig” and t-u tel me 
h wot a gnd tlm he had ecsperienst and lion nisi i 
he had carrid hiz points; — and lion sum old 
vvurthi complend tu him that he had bin tor- 
mented so mudh bi uther denomineshunz in- 
trudig into hiz '‘se” &c., &c., and hou pert li 
he had replld tu him. Hwl sed the Doctor: 

hav fot the Methodist fifti yerz; and fhage 
God, % hav eept them, and ^ hav eept ol uther 
denomineshunz, out gv mi “se.” 

“Well Hou hav yu sucseded so wel? J 
wild lie tu hav ynr prescripshun.” Sed the 
Reverend Wurthi. 

‘‘O!’ 1 sed the Doctor wotdh them, and $ 
wotdh them; and hwen 5 met them, J luv them 
and i luv them; and simpefhiz with them 
in ol ther afferz; and 5 tec a dep interest in 


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ol tli 6r presperiti; and J spec tu them ©v ther 
pregres and ©v the g*ret vvurc for gud the liav 
dun; and J tel them hou plezd Jam tu lern ©v 
tbs gret wurc the ar dmig in thzr rsspectiv plzs- 
ez ; and, if the ventip* tu hold a metig with-in 
ml “se,” Jam ther, — polTt, luvig and brutherli — 
redi ta ed them — espeshalli ther ministerz — in 
everi gud vvurc: and then J luv them, and J Ivv 
them and J luv them tu dethl” 

The Doctor w©z, inded, a clnd old man and 
veri mersiful tu ol az wel tu tlioz tu hum he 
predht, az tu thoz from hum he resevd salari; 
hut he woz espeshalli so tu ol sudh az cem 
with fill bascels and plump pursez tu die do- 
neshunz at hiz liens. He never committed an 
©ffens if he cud help it, — in the pulpit or out 
©v it. He woz ever cerful net tu predh hwet 
he fhot hiz ceggregeshun did net wont tu her. 
Rather than tu hurt ther feligz, or hiz pepqlari- 
ti, he wud let them run tremendus rises ev folig 
into that after censidereshun that uther clerji- 
men so zelusli and so ernestli worn ther hererz 
tu shun. 

If he had tu yuz the wurd “hel” he so amid 
hiz rneufli with huni or gliserin that it wez ap- 
parent tu ol hm herd, that it never tudht hiz 
palet, tug, gumz, t eth or lips. J don’t no that 
he ever t rid tu mec it apper that hel iz net a 
bad pies; but it olwez semd tu me that he 


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med it apper m biz odious that lie had com- 
ply control ov the territori about its entrails, 
and that he olwaz cept the entians we pritti 
securli cuverd up. And than, in hiz prarz, or 
rather in hiz manner ov praig, it olwaz sernd 
tu biz hererz ttiat he vvoz on first clas termz 
with Hie (Dlmlti, — in fact, vvoz wun ov hiz eon- 
fidensfhalz — wun ov hiz intimate, — hu cud ©1- 
waz get just b wot be aset for, in hiz on tim, 
and in hiz on we. And, az a consecwens, in 
dint direcsfhun, for thoz for hum he “did biz- 
nos,” ther vvoz no rum tu fer. 

“Eternal dam nesfhun” mlt fol tu die lot ov 
sum owe of, — in Africa, Camshatca, Raggul’z 
Land, in the Inland ov Madagascar, — or tu flioz 
stil farther awe; but hardli tu eni amup dioz 
that regularli attended upon hiz predhig. In- 
ded, J ges diat meni ov thoz hu yuzd tu her 
him predli fliot that he woz tu considerat tu 
yuz sudh bad frezez, and tu gud and tu dhar- 
itabul tu all on, even the wurst ov them, tu 
suffer sudh ecstremitiz. 

And then be vvoz so strog in luv — bad grat 
fount inz ov it — egzhostles — enuf for everi 
bodi — and t u spar after that yet. Luv, in him, 
vvoz a livir), activ fountin — ever welip up — o- 
verdoir] hiz Iz with terz — and hiz dhecs tu, — 
espeshalli liwen lie predht the funeral sermon 
ov sum scoundrel huz noterleti had bin sound- 


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ed afar. But he’d hav tu be a .pritti bad fello 
i t* tins Dec-tor did net get him into tieven after 
of — espesfhalli if he bad bin a const itqcnt ev 
biz dhurdh — or even a gad peig member ev biz 
ceggregesfhun ; — and amid biz retoric and biz 
terz, f bav non bim tu get sum awe — y n end 
net tel livver die went. 

^ thigc, at a funeral sermon, be never field in 
this matter — if retoric, an injenyus interpret e- 
s'hun ev die Scriptqrz, a happi omisdiun ev 
sum parts ev the bistori ev die desest, much 
luv and a river ev tsrz end put him thru. 
And in ces it wez palpabli impessibul for him 
tu sho that be wez goig tn put bim rit into 
Heven, be wild at the lest, giv bim a gnd send- 
ef, and nice, tn biz frendz and tn udierz bu 
stil 1 i v, biz prospects for gettig ther, az brlt 
and az premisig az pessibul. 

The rezult ev ol this wez just hwet everi 
sagesdius persun wnd ecspect. The pepul in 
and abent Biggoz wer, lie the pepul ev Babilen 
ev old, ol ev wun fetli and ev wun order; and 
the fetli ev diem, az a rial, wez veri wee — in 
most cesez, mudh les than that ev a gren ev 
mustard or even ev a gren ev a mullen wed; 
and ther practisez wer veri eerrupt — reeolig 
stregli dioz ev the pepul ev old Sedem and 
Gomerro, Pempii and Hereqlenium. Sunde 
wez preverbialli, the wurst de in die wee. It 


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vvez tli 8 wun de set apart, hi thez pepul, for 
careuzig, gemig, hors-resig, vizitir) ther rela- 
tivzand aecwentansez, vizit ig the liotelz, drigc- 
ig, reslig, (Itig and sudh uthor visez az ar yuzli- 
galli the aceumpaniments ov thez. Freni erli 
mornig til let at nit, en Sunde, the hotel vvez 
fill, ev gests — tli 8 most ev them “ hard cQsez 
sum fVem afar, sum frem neburig villejez, hut 
tli 8 most ev them, frem ear on villej and its 
visiniti. 

If, upen Sunde mornig, ther vvez net a fit at 
the hotel, he for breefast, we thot fhigz had gron 
veri menetonus. It vvez unloful tn sel licur 
upen Sunde — hut suniheu ther sernd. tu he no 
difficult i for thoz hu wisdit tn drigc, tu get az 
mucfh ev it az tlie wisftit ; and I hav sen duzenz, 
upen ther we tu dhurdh, step at the hotel, tu 
get a driqc, and tu get ther pecet Hascs — at 
that tlm an indispensahul accuterment tu the 
pecet ev everi yug man lua went into cumpani 
heraheuts, — hid with brand i, jin, lnvisei or 
hwetever els the dhoz, az an intecsicetig drigc; 
and, the liardli ever left tlie hotel until the be- 
gan tu (el the effects ev hwet the had drugc. 

I hav herd meni se that tlie vver net redi tu 
go i u tia dhurdh until the had tecen, at the lest, 
tu drigcs — wun at tlie hotel, the uther at the 
s(hedz hvverat the left ther horsez. And then, 
if the sermen pruvd a lit till leg, it vvez net an 


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uncommon thirj, for several ev diem — se ten 
at a tlm— tn get up, and prans, or swagger 
out, — hwll the Doctor woz predhip — tu the 
shedz tu tec anuther dripc. Ofen, be for the 
servisez ended — espesfhclli if* die dripc tuc ef- 
fect pritti cvvicli — the sem felloz leturnd tu 
thar sets in die dhurdli. 0v cors, die most-ev 
diez felloz wer the sunz ev die most welfhi and 
die most respectabul sitizenz ov our villcj and 
die neburhud around it; the sunz ov the com- 
municants ov the dhurdli, and, in sum cesez, 
diez veri felloz themselvz wer communicants 
ov the dhurdh, and wer never senshurd for ther 
conduct. And livvot woz ther tu hinder diis 
practis, or tu disswed its votariz from it? G 
heus divided agenst itself must fol; and die 
Doctor, eni lion, woz tu induljeht, tu dharita- 
bul, tu luvip, tu affecsfhunet, tu discret, £u 
Jocsi tu find fob widi thoz hu wud. cum tu her 
him predh ! And, tu cep diem cumip, he 
predht Ivv in a most Ivvi p wa; and that gras 
liwidh we col dhariti — die gres ov ol gresez — 
abounded in him, — til its do woz lie a grot 
river, — so mudh so that ol hu eem within the 
sfer ov hiz indiiens drape depli — sum tu in- 
tocsicashun onli, utherz tu lefharji, udierz tu 
stppiditi. 

Durip Dr. Circpatric’s de, the hotel at Plez- 
ant Corner, or az it woz then better non, Lar- 


isun’z Corner, or Upper Biggoz, woz doig a 
lai*j hiznes. if possibul, this lions woz rnor 
cerruptig than .the vvun in the villej ev Rig- 
goz. Indsd,Bil Gqlic ho vnzd tn ‘‘tend bar” 
at tiiis boas, wez wunt tu se: “Tbs ground 
that dividz tbs Infernal Rsjun from the pspul 
abuv it, iz thinner at Larisun’z Corner than 
at eni uther pies in ths bol world. It iz so 
thin that the fqrnz ov brimston ©fen lse thro, 
and I hav non sum tu go out ov this heus, and 
enter rit into ther Sternal abod az son az tbs 
spirits bwidh the her dragc had Urn tu do its 
effis. Prom this bar into Hel (her iz but a 
step; and tneni ho drigc her, ar son t n be 
found ther.” 

So dependent woz this hous, at that tlm, up- 
on die petronaj ov the dhurdh, that hwen the 
toetov movig dis dhurdh tu Riggoz, Jon Lar- 
isun, ths oner ov the hotel, hiz frendz and ol 
ho wer frendli tu ths tavern, oppozd ths mov- 
nient bseoz, if die dhurdh wermovd, the hiznes 
ov ths hotel wud bs so hurt that wun cud not 
mac a livig In cepig it, and az a consscwens 
ths hous wud go doun. 

But ws did not hav tu mov ths dhurdh tu 
undermln dis hotel. Hwen ths Proprietor bs- 
cgui converted and baptizd into dis dhurdh, 
and hwen ths most ov dioz ho yuzd tu drigc 
bsfor goig into dhurdh had bscum converted 


from ther wild wez tu Cristianiti fher woz no 
ned ev a hotel fher and it ssst tu be. 

Hors-resig woz the fevorit sport, and resig 
tu and from church wez a common practis. 
But resig dgrig ths afterman ov Sunde woz die 
sport that attracted ths croudz at ths upper 
hotel (at Piezant Corner) and efferd ths best 
opportipiitiz for bettig, and led tu ths most 
cworrelz and ths most fits, i hav ssn tlirs 
resez, on ths old Pes-cors ©v Riggoz,* dgrig 
Sunde afterman; and hav bin cold mor than 
wuns upon Sunde tu act az a Surjun tu such 
az wer injiird upon ths res-greund bl ths hors- 
ez or bl f T tig. 

Az J livd at ths hotel, and az ths we from 
ths strst tu ml ©ffis woz thru ths bar-rum, and 
az ths we from ml effis tu ths dining-rum woz 
thru ths bar-rum, ^ so much uncufh, corrupt 
and unmannerli bshevyur, and herd much 
obssn, vishus and outlandish toe, — in fact, i so 

* The old Res-cors ev Riggoz iz a mil lei). It iz a part ev the 
Old Yore Rod. It beginz ner tile gat at A. T. Wilycimsun’z and 
endz at the bridj, in frunt ev mi lieus. So, 5 cud sit upen mi 
piazza and se the most important part ev the res and her the de- 
sizliun bi tile judjez and die wild htirroz for the the win nig 
liors — and die leud clammor ev the drugeen braggarts hu had 
bet upen the res or els had sum interest in wun ev the liorsez. 

Ofen upen this cors, ther wer resez bi munlit. And, upen a 
Saturde afterman, S hav sen larj gatherigz — estimated at frem 
1000 tu 1500 pepul, ev ol ejez — frem the littul bei tu the decrep- 
it old man lrn, with difficulty woct with tu cenz. 


mor ov ths rszults ev the lo eondiShun ev tbs 
soslsti ev hwidh I wez bscumir) a part than I 
cud hav sen from eni uther point. At wuns J 
began tu studi tbs cendisfhun gv afferz, die eoz 
ov thsz cendiShunz, and tlis mezbprz that wild 
cpr them. Sian J lernd that ignorans prsvald, 
that, ov ©1 tiis yurj men and yuij wimen in this 
ruf soslsti, not wun had even a gnd common 
scial edneaShun, and thathardli a magazen ora 
bnc vvoz red. Indsd, ov literatm* ov eni cTnd, 
ther vvoz a grat derfh. An old lether bact Bl- 
bul, an old TggliSh Keder, and Pics’ or Pets’z 
Ari dims tie end bs found in meni ov die houz- 
ez — but mor bucs than thsz, in eni nian’z hous, 
indicated ecstravagans, and wer rsgarded in- 
dicaShunz ov wsc-mlndednes and etfeminasi. 

In regard tu rslijun, ol swor bl Dr. Circpat- 
rie. Ct fsu ov tiiem nsu enuf ov the Shorter 
catseizum tu anser Astret” hwen egzamind 
for membership into dhurcfh. But hwer dia 
lernd ths catseizum I du not no, — I never so 
but wun cepi ov it in eni ov die houzez. Old 
Jemz J. FiSher yuzd tu tel ms diat most ov 
diem lernd it hwll yug bl hsrig ths older wunz 
rspst it. 

This 86111 old Jemz J. FiSher yuzd tu tel 
ms an anecdot rsspectiij Dr. Circ. and a vizitii) 
minister, hia wonted tu prsdh tu ths Doctor’z 
eerjgrsgeShun hwll on die vizit. Ths Doctor, 


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lua had tbs reputesfhun ev bsip wun ov ths 
planest prsdherz, and wun lua yuzd ths sim- 
plest wurdz, objected on the groundz that nun 
in biz ceggrsgashun end understand tbs big 
wurdz that tbs vizi tor wild yuz. Tu this ths 
vizitor rsplld : “Sha! Eni wun in yur dburdh 
can understand eni wurd that ^ yuz. Giv ms 
a trial ; and then yu’l ss.” 

Tbs Doctor consented ; tbs vizitor prscfht y 
ssmd tu attract ths attensfhun ov ths pspul 
pritti wel, and after ths sermon sed tu tbs 
Doctor: “Well ther! non yu ss! 4 can toe 
plan snuf for ynr foes tu understand : the got 
everi wurd ov that.” — “ Wei, ml trend,” sed ths 
Doctor, “yu did pritti wel — better than % fliot 
yu wild; but ther wer meni wurdz that $ fsr 
wer not understud — sven bl ths best ov ml 
pspul.” 

“Sha!” sed ths vizitor. “Tel ms a wurd 
that yu thige the did not understand.” “ Wel,' r 
sed ths Doctor, “that lit t u 1 wurd ‘fslisiti’ that 
yu yuzd so ofen, 4 thi rjc woz not understud bl 
tiis best ov ml pspul.” 

“Doctor! Yu rat the intellijens ovyur pspul 
tia lo; tha no mor tlian yu thige tha dia : col 
up sum wun that yu fhirjc duz not no ths msn- 
ir) ov ths wurd Mslisiti’ and ase him about it.” 
“ Wel,” sed das Doctor, will” And hs cold 


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Elder B — , a veri dignifld, wel-bilt, greheded, 
old man hu had a veri brod fas, and a veri hi 
fared, die oldest elder in die dhurdh, hu cam 
up with die displa ev much importans, and 
mudh seremoni. Az he cem, and sfhuc die hand 
ev edh minister, Dr. Circ. began: “Elder B — , 
brother so and so and miself hav a littul dis- 
pqt her respect ig die wurd ‘felisiti,’ and we 
thot me be yn end help us nut gv it. HwGt 
du yn understand die wurd 6 fslisiti ’ tu men?” 
“Wol! Dector! % no liwet it menz but jist 
lit her me be 5 can’t mec yu understand. It 
iz wun gv thoz glisseni, shlni intralz gv a pig; 
in fact it iz wun gv the most important parts 
gv die intralz gv a pig; but, jist her, % can’t 
tel hwidh wun, becoz he’nt get the pig’z in- 
tralz her tu s r ho yu. But yu jist cum up tu 
ml liens necst wee liwen we butcher pore and 
tPl sho yu — B1 tel yu ©1 abeut it, Dector, ^ 
wil; or enithig els yu wont tu no.” 

The Dector wez tu pollt and tu self-pezzest 
tu laf, but die vizitor cud net stand it, — he 
had tu turn hiz bac, giv vent tu hiz feligz and 
find empleiment in adjustig hiz cloc &c., &c. 

The Dector himself yuzd tu relet an anecdot 
net mudh inferior tu the abuv. It semz that 
wuns upen a tlm, he and sum naburig minis- 
ter wer discussig sum subject relativ tu sim- 
plisiti ev laggwaj in a sermen, hwen the Dec- 


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tor wisdit tu sflio that the pepul ov biz efliurdh, 
at lest, did net comprehend lojieal toe. Her- 
upon he cold Mr. S — , vvun gv the dignitariz 
gv hiz coggregashun, wel non az the oner gv a 
larj farm and ecsellent temz, et cetera . The 
Dnctor stated a propozisfhun wel non a mug 
ministerz, and efen herd from the pulpit, in 
laggwaj az ters and az simpul az he cud, and 
then sed : “Mr. S — ! can yu dro eni inferens 
from this propozishun?” — “Wel, Domini!" sed 
Mr. S — , “IE diigc so; Tv got a yoc gv sterz 
that haz olwaz dron eniffiig that ^ hav ever 
hitdht diem tu, and T1 brig them over and vve’l 
trl it — if yu sa so.” 

Sudh then woz the status ov the intellijens, 
the moraliti and die relijun ov die commipiiti. 
The menz gv impruvment semd tu be die in- 
troducsfhun ov lernig and the im plant ig ov a 
littul ng leren gv relijus natip-. And tu dia 
thez fhigz, J at wuns determind. J forso that 
S wud be met with strog oppozishun at everi 
step, and that, at the best, it wud tac a term 
gv yerz tu wurc die dhanj ! But, J woz yuzd 
tu difficultiz and imp'd tu hard wurc and asct 
onli tu hav a plenti ov it tu du. Ml m\ fgld 
ov labur semd the mor invltig in proporsfhun 
az it prezented mountinz gv difficultiz and la- 
bur that had no limit, nether in ardqusnes nor 
in the amount tu be dun. 


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Wun rani da in Me, 1863, I returnd frem 
a leg rid, upon hors bac, wet tu dig scin, mud- 
di and jeded ; meni wer sic, and I had much 
tu du; but ev this I cud net cemplen: I wez 
glad that, az thsz pspul must be sic, it wez 
mi let tu attend diem; and ® did it dherfulli, 
even hwen tlrd and ml on heldi in jepardi. Az 
* rod tu mi hors’z stol in dig stebul, the apart- 
ment wez fill ev yug men and old men diat 
had cum in frem the neburig farmz tu ss die 
sits, drigc, cereuz, pie cardz, pitdh cweits, res- 
el, fit or enifltig els for diverzhun, or tu be 
rud. Az 1 rod thru, the salgted me: “Hen 
ar yu, Dec ?” The toe wez clamorus— lend, 
profan and indesent. — Mi ste a mug them wez 
sihort, — I hesend toord mi effis. Az it open'd 
the dor that let ms into the bar-rum, — thru 
hwidli 1 had tu go 1 met sudh a fogo ev breths 
sicenli ledeu with tobacco and rum a z 1 had 
never met befor. It cozd me tu step bac for 
the moment, — it semd stidig. 

The rum wez ful, — so creuded that ol wer 
stand ig— even the old grehedz; ol semd tu be 
tocig ; at the lest, ol semd tu be triig tu toe — 
even thoz hu wer tu drugc tu spec. Sum spoc 
loud, sum spoc leuder; sum slheuted. Meni 
ev the wurdz tha yuzd, I never so in eni dic- 
sihunari. But tha semd tu understand sdh 
uther. Q mug them flier had bin a “/refit” 


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in hwidh most ov them, no doiit, had tecen 
part. Ther wer several blac Tz, and several 
1)1 ud i nozez, and several seind fesez. But, hl- 
lariti rend, rum Hod and the wer havig, hwet 
the cold, a gud tlm. I forst ml we tliria ths 
croud tu die dor livvidh opend into ths bol- 
rum. Az I did so, ths Landloid shouted: 
“Git out gv ths we ther and let ths Doc. thru ! 
llav yu no mannerz? Hs’z never ssn sudh a 
set gv dum, dirti, drugcen devilz ! $’m a- 

shemd gv yu ! Yu ot tu sho a llttul mannerz. 
hwen strenjerz ar around, if yu don’t at eni 
uther tlm !” 

Hwen $ enterd mi Gffis, I found Charlz M. 
Ls and Andria B. Larisun azbizi at ther stud- 
iz az die wud bs wer die in a dh ember gv 
Filosofi, a fhouzand mllz rsmiavd frojn ths 
proulerz in ths den bslo. No hilarius conduct 
ov ths sitizenz ov Kiggoz ever ahird them from 
studi, and die practis ov virtrp In them I had 
confidens; with diem lend sefli toe; and with 
them I cud consort. 

Hwll dofftg ml wet raps, and washig mi 
handz, I bsgan tu comment upon tiis ssnz I 
had just witnest bslo — at ths stebulz, in ths 
strst and in ths bar rum, — stetig that the wer 
shecig and that sumfhig must bs dun tu dhenj 
ths cors ov sosisti at this pies; — tiiat ths rizig 
jeneresliun ov so fertil a fsld must net gro up 


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tu piactisez so bas; — that this incubus ©v ig- 
n ora ns must giv we tu intellijens; — that this 
irreverens must bs fellod 1)1 holsum relijun; 
that Sunda must hav its pigs in the wee, and 
that the gospel, in its pnriti, must be predht. 

Hwen J had toct a lor] hwll, and die boiz 
had becum sumhwot tlrd ov ml statments, 
Andro, in biz yuzhual pert we, sed: “Well 
Tutor! Hwot ar yu goip tu do about it? 
Charlz and J wer tocip a littul hwll befor yu 
cam in— hwen dia had that fre fit, and we wer 

cold doun tu vvasdi and doctor the wianded 

that we had got about az ner Hel az we cud, 
on this sld ov the grav.” 

a Hwot am f goig tu do about it?” sed T 
“HwT, ® am goiij tu brirj about a better stat 
ov fhipz! The yuij ov diis comnnpiiti ar tu 
be tot ; f wil tedli them bl hue and bi cruc, 
in spit ov diai* parents or thar on wilz; and 
die gospel must be predht,— rit her in this vil- 
11Q t a mil or to awa ; and everi Sunda, 
and several tlmz everi Sunda — not wuns in 
for wees. Minister/, ov uther denomina^hunz 
than the Prezbiterian must be invited her; and 
hwen dia cum, tha must be supported and 
protected. And then this commipiiti wil rev- 
ohisfhunlz ov its on accord; and out ov the 
revolq^hun wil cum a better stat ov fliiijz.” 


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Tu this Andru, in hiz gud ymnurd we, re-- 
plld: “Wei! hwot aryur planz? We’d lie tu 
her sum ov them ! Yu luc lie tedhig a liol 
cemmuniti, — espesfoalli ov sudh cesez az yu 
her met; and az for yur predhig and yur 
dhurdh-bildig, — yu Inc lie bildig metighouzez — 
yu hav not got “grznb&cs” enuf tu bl yu an 
overcot! — 1 fhige yu had better get, yu an 
overcot, lest, amid this eespozhgr and a wont, 
ov clothz, the undertecer gets yu. The man 
that duz not on an over-cot, and can hardli 
muster a dhenj ov clothz, even upon a rani de, 
better luc tu hiz word-rob and lev grat re- 
forrnz alon.” 

Bl tliis tun ml sfhol (for S then wor a dhol, 
and nether ond an overcot, nor had muni enuf 
tu bl wun) neded tu be hug upon a lln tu dri ; 
and, hwll % woz duig this 5 replld: “Ml planz 
ar feu and veri simpul. 5 no 4 am veri pur, 
and ^ no ml helth iz bad. But 5 intend tu 
overcum both, in a mezhgr, and tu adhev, in 
les than ten yerz, tia, ol that J hav stated. 
First, $ intend tu so liv in accordans with fiz- 
iolojic lo that ml fram wil be repard, enlarjd 
and stregthend, — so that mi abiliti tu endgr 
wil be grater, and S wil be abul tu perform 
mor wurc. 

Second, 5 intend tu so appli mlself tu mi 
profeslbun that feu sdial be az acseptabul tu 


thoz hu ar sic, nz T ^ intend tu be prompt, in 
attendig tu ml biznes, and effi shout hwerever 
mi servis iz asct. 

Third, J intend tu tech, hwerever go, let 
ml biznes ther bp, lnvot it me. J intend tu 
tedh, — at the bedsld, in the sic rum, in die par- 
lor, at horn, awe from horn, bl die wesld, ev- 
erihwer and at g>1 tlmz. $ intend tu tedh thp, 
old, die gre-hcd grands! rz, and ther litt.ul, 
grot-grandchildren — both in the sern lessun, — 
hvven the sfhal not no that >F am intenshunalli 
duig it ; % intend tu tedh the huzband and wlf, 
hwen die littul suspect hwet 5 am duir); $ in- 
tend tn tedh the yiadi — at ther homz hwenever 
opportunity prezents, at llseumz and at uther 
public gatheriijz hwenever J can; and, at ml 
on horn, J wil tedh ol lua me cum — regardles 
ov secs, or soshal standig, provided ohvez diat 
the hu cum ar wurthi ov an educeshun. Thus, 
admitted intu the famili, for profeshunal ser- 
vis, ^ wil implant, intu the mTndz ov ol, thoz 
fhirjz diat wil vvurc a dezlr tu no, dispel this 
spperstishun, elevet the moral standard, mec 
beii)z fel diat l!f iz real, that it iz wurfh hwll 
tu liv wel, and diat ther children sfhud gro up 
tu virtu, tu moral wurth, and tu importans tu 
the stet. And in ol mi tedhii), If shal hav no 
cred. The Neu Testament 5 shal ever vindi- 


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eel ;iz the onli cod that can l>s I'slid en tu j;Td 
man in meralz, virtu and in relijun. 

Forth, $ intend tu be frugal and savig in 
ol ml wez; tu dres mederatli but desentli ; tu 
mec ml wonts az feu az pessibul, and tu sav 
everidiig l 4 can, until J hav accumulated snuf 
tu purdhas a horn and tu bild a liens silted tu 
ths nedz ev sudh az wish a plas in this villaj 
az a liens ev wurship; and hwen I 4 hav ernd 
muni en u f tu bild sudh a liens, J wil invlt ol 
lua ar wilig tu 1 ir)C thar fortipiz with min, tu 
yunlt with ms tu bild a liens in liwidh eni re- 
spectabul minister ev eni deneminashun ma 
predh at eni tlm, provided onli that, if tlis Bap- 
tist pepul shal at eni tlm organlz a dhurdh 
her, dia shal hav the lit tu appoint tlmz at 
lnvidh the wish tu eccupl the liens for relijus 
servisez, and hwenever net yuzd hi diem ac- 
eordigtu sudh: appointments, it me be yuzd bl 
eni udier denemineshun lm ascs for it.” 

Bi this tlm Andria liad becum mor series, 
and semd tu be gretli interested in the project, 
and, after a leg slleiis, sed: “Heu leg du yu 
fhigc it wil tec yu tu accomplish ol this?”’ 
$ replld: “Les than ten yerz.” 

He replld: “ Wei ! this iz a grat undertac- 
ig, espeshalli for wun liu iz penniles, and Iile 
haz semd, for die last flv yerz, tu be en the 
veri verj ev the grav.” 


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“ But it iz wurthi,” if replld. 

“Yes,” sed lie, “and if yu ar goig at, it in 
that we, hwot yu accomplish wil be comnien- 
shurat, with yur dilijens and yur enerji ; oltho 
4 dout that yu can effect dhanjez so vast in the 
spas 9v ten yerz, yet nufhig can withstand, 
fhwort, or divert from its purpus that cTnd ev 
an undertacig. Truth wil olwaz triumf and 
Providens olwaz abundantli favurz die votariz 
ov virtu and reform. And, if yu ar goig at 
this, $ wud lie tu help yu; but, $ am not non 
in condishuntu help; and, ^ se no wa in hvvidh 
4 cud help, even if J wer in condishun.” 

u Yu ar in condishun tu help, if onli yu hav 
a wil tu du it,” sed if. “This battul iz tu be 
fot not with gunz, not with sordz, not with 
baonets, not with batterig ramz, not with cata- 
pults, but with truth and virtu; and, huever 
haz thez iz armd for the conflict; and, huever 
sets fliez in arra, joinz battul agenst this ene- 
mi.” 

“if wil help,” woz hiz repll; and, he helpt til 
he did. 

“ But liwen ar yu goig tu begin this wurc?” 
he aset. 

“if hav olredi begun; the wurc iz in prog- 
res, and ar the end ov wun munfh, yu shal se 
that rezults hav bin adhevd. Ther iz no thn tu 


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luz; tu -de th 8 fsld dsmandz labor. The wurc 
ev tu-de 4 must du, in order that 4 me 1)8 redi 
for that ov ths merro. The tippr wil net ss 
ms begin; but it wil ss ins, az yu neu ss ms, 
in pregres, til this bsnlted eemimpiiti iz frsd 
from its fetterz, and truth— (rslijun, meraliti, 
lernig, sleiis and filesofi) — sfhal be szili acsessi- 
bul tu ol, and in ths pursijt ev thsz, no wun 
sflial bs rsstrend.” 

“4 wil help,” wez biz rspl!; and hiz adhsv- 
ments wer az glories az hiz rszelv wez hitmen. 
Freni that tim forward, hiz enerji wez never 
slaeend, nor hiz thirst for ths elsveslhun ev this 
pspul sleet. Ths mor he did for ths upbildig 
ev tli is pspul, ths mor bs so tu du; and, ths 
mor he adhsvd ths mor he thirsted tu accem- 
plisfh. H wether at horn or abrod, hiz hart 
wez ever in ths wurc. He wez olwez his wiz- 
est counselor 4 censulted, and ths wun tu hum 
4 cud implisitli trust. Ids never disappointed 
ms. Hs ssrnd tu no ml planz az wel az 4 nsu 
them mlself; and dprig mi absens, hwidh efen 
happend, hs wez prompt, effisfhent, and un- 
swervig. Nor did hs cenfln hiz help tu eni 
wun lln ev wurc. IIs wel nsu that ths sucses 
ev revolipdiunlzii] ths cemmitniti dspended up- 
on tlis sucses ev mi vocesfhun, bs that hwet it 
mit. Accordigli, hwenever hs cud, hs helpt 
ms in ths practis ev medisin and surjeri, in 


hwidh hs wez veri effishent and veri acsepta- 
bul tu the pepul; he hel |>t me in tedhig, — ther 
wer olwez students in mi hens; and tu ml 
effis students wer ever cumig and ever goig; 
and becoz ev hiz redi wit, and h i z apt scolar- 
sdiip, he wez olwez a gist fevorit. He helpt 
me in the cerz ev mi effects — hiz hand wez 
ever red i tu relev me, and olwez so effisfhent 
that he semd tu be a part ev miself. So, eur 
lets becem cemmen and it wez hard tu be 
apart — even liwen biznes cempeld us tu be so. 
But, he had yet befor him hiz cellej cors — ol- 
most anuther yer in the medical cellej, and 
then for yerz in the litereri cellej. But, dip-ig 
the vecesliunz he cud du mudh, and he never 
let a dhans slip. 

In ol eur ware we wer presperus. The onli 
sors ev incum, wez the practis ev medisin. 
Enifhig els I had in hand onli cest me muni. 
Tedhig olwez cest me a gret del, and frem it 
I realizd no muni. But, I wez olwez glad tu 
hav it tu du, — it wez mi we ev worfer, and I 
had olmost sed, the onli worfer in hwidh I 
hav ever engejd. I neu that, in tedhig, I wez 
trenig soldyerz foi* the wor I so luvd tu wej ; 
and, I wez then censeted enuf tu thige that 
thoz hu wer subject tu mi tuishun wud never 
be feund agenst me, — the wud olwez be feund 
en the sid ev truth, and wud edh becum dham- 


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pienz 9 v virtg, hgmanili, enur and a brod 1 * 8 - 
lijun; and, with a fsu ccsepshunz, sudh haz bin 
the ces. 

Dgrig the summer vGCGshun ev 1867, 4 an- 
neunst tn Andru that ^ woz redi tu purdhas a 
let and erect a bildiij tu bs yuzd az a Mstig- 
heus. Ov cors hs held tbs anneunsment, and 
ws at wuns dstermind tu locGt the bildig upon 
tbs sit upon hvvidh it wez subsscvventli bi It. 
For the sum ev $311.00, 1 bad olredi bargind 
with Mr. J. Farli Shepherd* for the land, — a 
fact that gretli plszd him, bscoz hs wcl under- 
stud that tn bi a pss ©y land in Riggoz, for 
ths a vend intenshun ©v bildig upon it a heus 
for wurship, tu bs yuzd bi eni bedi ecsept 
Presbitsrianz, woz utterli impessibul. 

Az vvs wer matgrig ©urplanz, toord das cloz 
©v the vaceshun, ws agrsd tulsd Jorj H. Lar- 
isun, m. D., (hu woz olvvez redi tu Gd in a gud 
coz, espeshalli if ther appsrd in it enifhig for 
ths Baptist), into a nelej ©v hwet ws wer duig. 
The project tuc with him at wuns; but, hs 
had <z;ret fsrz ©v ths rszults. Hs shod sum 
dsgrs ©v surprlz hwen hs so hou far ws had 

* J. Farli Shepherd, a member ev the M. E. church, and at 
that tlm a partner with the Rev. Izrael Peulsen (pastor ev the 
Duncard Church dire milz awe) in biznes ev stor-cepiq, az wel 
az the Rev. Peulsen, wer cosliusli, at the tlm ev die ecsecqshun 
ev the ded, led intia a nelej ev thescemz ev A. B. Larisun, C. M. 
Le and miself. Onli the held eur scemz and wislit us sucses. 


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gen with our wurc befor the public nsu lnvet ws 
wer duig. Hs cosfhund ms rsspectig tbs rszult s 
ev ml bold undertecig. IIs told ms, (bwot ov 
c-ors, J ©lredi nsu), that a z sun az tbs Presbits- 
rianz lernd that J bad a project in band that 
wnd open tbs we intu ther cemmipiiti, tu uther 
dsnemineshunz, the wnd, tu a man, go intu a 
wor ov subjugeshun or ecsterminesfhun ; that 
ol that splendid repipeshun J bad adhsvd az a 
dzishan, tsdher and lilanfhropist wnd bs cild 
at wuns; that S wild bs rsgarded az won in 
lsg with ths devil and wun that must bs cild 
profeshunalli, and az a tsdher, and az a sit i - 
zen ; that eni msnz that premist tu effect this 
ecstermineshun, die wild vigorusli ynz, and 
that ^ wnd sun agen bs penniles, and bav 
nufhig tu du that wnd brig ms tbs bwerwithol 
tu liv. 

Ml rspll woz : “ Ml coz iz gud : J fsl that 

4 am in ths rlt. $ am tru tu ml coz, and Prev- 
idens wil prosper ms in Hiz on we, and in 
Hiz on tfm. ^ bav no fsrz. ^ am a crstpr in 
dis bandz ov Providens : Hs wil yuz ms tu 
carri out this project if i am tru tu ml under- 
tecig; and, tboz bu bscum mi ensmiz wil not 
bs ebul tu overcum, oltlio the wil oppoz, ms 
in everi we die can, and wil dsrid ms in everi 
we die can, and wil bell ms in everi we the 
can, and wil vecs ms in everi we die can : J 


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no tha wil harms ms az log az ^ liv. J no thar 
stregfh; * no thar weponz ; 4 no thar dispozi- 
sfaunz; and % no, (for i hav Providers for nil 
bacig), that 4 wil 1)8 tu mucfh for them. 5 hav 
met them, siggu 1-handed, on uther battul-fsldz, 
and S hav olwez cum of victorius; and die sam 
Gmt Qrm that carrid ms thru uther under- 
tacigz, iz non ecstended tn support ms in this. 
And, in this matter, 4 du not asc ad ; ^ onli 
invlt fraternal recognisfhun, and a fraternal 
eooperasJhun. This vvorfar cannot hs vvajd hi 
forsez from without; it must hs dsvelopt and 
carrid hi forsez from within. Thoz ov us, (if 
ws ar onli tu in number) lna ar her, hu hav a 
hold upon ths harts ov ths psjiul, hu hav in- 
fgzd ©urselvz intu ths worp and wuf ov this 
sosisti, must du ths wurc. This wor iz intes- 
tin, and it iz wel under wa ; but thoz most 
effected hi it, hav not yet lernd hwot it iz, and 
hwot it wil lsd tu. Ths up-bracig, ths clasdi- 
ig, ths fiiri and ths raj that wil ensg, hwen first 
tha fsl it and rsaliz that tha ar inecstricahli 
engajd in it, iz yet untold — but J no it wil hs 
©fill, and wil dsmand ©v us curaj, compozhgr, 
tact and perssvsrans. But, Providens wil mac 
us adscwat tu ths dsmandz, and wil stregfhen 
and fit our hacs tu hwotever burdenz ws wil 
hav tu bar.” 

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commit the purdhas ov the land and die bildig 
ov a heus til a bord evtrustez, die mejoriti ov 
hwidh shal be memberz, in gud standig, in die 
Baptist Churdheznerest this pies; and that, az 
he woz a decon in the Baptist. Church at Lam- 
bertvil, it wild be consistent in him, sins he 
thot wel ov our project, to invlt sudh az he 
thot wild tec an interest in die matter, to met, 
at sum best tun, at mT ofbs. Aecordigli he 
rot letterz til such memberz ov sudh Baptist 
Churdhez az he elected, and tn that metig 
(held September, 1867) eem G. H. Larisun ov 
Lambert vil, Rev. S. Sigdred, Jon ISTevius, and 
J. S. Durham ov Wertsvil Baptist Churdh, 
and Wily am Deli ov the Baptist Churdh at 
Flemigtun, and C. W. Larisun hia woz not a 
member ov eni dhurdh. In ©rganlzig the met- 
ig, C. \Y. Larisun woz med dherman, and 
G. II. Larisun beeem the secret eri. The in- 
tenshun ©v thoz hu had bin instrui mental in 
colig them tugether woz plenli steted, and dien 
began a seriz ov veri serius, and veri cosh us 
delibereshun, hwidh ended in a conchizhun tn 
join the undertecig and prosed widi the i>roject 
az spesifld. Accordigli, Jorj II. Larisun, J. 
S. Durham, Rev. S. Sigfred, Jen Nevius, 
Wm. Deli, Jecob Swallo, and C. W. Larisun 
actig az trustez, rezolvd tu purdhas a plot ov 
ground for a sit for a metig-heus. Qltho this 


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seshun ov this metir) began {it 2 o’cloc, P. M. ? 
it woz non nit and die mun sthon brltli; and, 
bl mun lit, we vizited the let diat, J had previ- 
usli selected for die purpus. Tim concluded 
tn occupl it. Tlmrupon a bildig commit ts 
woz appointed and die metig adjurnd. 

Imriiedietli $ vizited Mr. J. F. Shepherd 
and clozd ml bargin with him, and recwlrd him 
tn mec out a ded for the land, tu die abuv 
nemd trustez, on Munde. He semd tu fhirjc 3? 
woz unyuzqalli agcsfhus about eoncludii) the: 
bargin, az it woz then nerli midnit. — J woz 
(tho f did not tel him so); f neu ther woz 
trubul alied. 

On Wenzda ov the folloirj wee, a notis ap- 
perd in wun ov the local peperz, that on Sat- 
urde ov last wee, sum persunz ov the baptist, 
fedi had met in C. W. Larisuifz offis in die: 
villej ov Kii]goz, X. J. tu consider die proprl- 
eti ov erect iij a hous ov wursfhip, that dm had 
purdhest a plot ov ground, and had appointed 
a bildiij committe, and that a lions wild be. 
erected, if possibul, befor die cloz ov the yer. 

It cam tu die sitizenz ov Riggoz lie a chip 
ov thunder from a cler scl. Sum ov the dig- 
nitariz ov the Presbiterian dhurdh vizited J. F. 
Shepherd tu se if lie: had sold die hind tu diez 
sc&laiv&gz, az the cold us. Iliz repliwoz: “T 


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sold the land tu C. W. Larisun hu sed he 
intended tu bild a mgtig-hous upon it. Last 
Saturda nit he recwested me tu mac out thg 
dgd tu several men az thg Trustez ov a mgtig- 
hous ; and 1 hav dun it. That iz ol 1 no a- 
bout it.” 

Later in thg da, hg vvoz vizitcd and woz of- 
fer d a sum ov muni if hg vvud rgfqz tu complT 
with thg condisfhunz ov thg contract; — but dig 
bargin woz bgyond colig, — it woz elozd. 

Ilgrupon, $ woz accqzd ov stglig thg sit 
hwidh thg Presbiterian pgpul so log had in vgu 
for a dhurdh ov thar fath and order. Tha dg- 
clard that J woz a scoundrel — a wul fin sdigp’s 
cloth ig, a persun unfit tu bg admitled into 
thar famil iz, a persun that must bg driven out 
ov thg commqniti; and that 1 woz a common 
engmi tu thg commqniti. 1 woz vizited, scold- 
ed and fhretend if 1 prosgded in thg cors 1 had 
bggun. Sum hu bad bin accustumdtu emploi 
mg, az thar fainili fizislian, refqzd tu send .for 
mg hvven tha wer sic. But, thg ware went 
cwletli on ; thg feundasdiun for thg nq bildig 
woz dug, and ol cud sg that sumfliig mor than 
a project woz in egzistans. Sum luct at mg 
aseans, sum fround, sum attempted tu brou- 
bgt, utherz wild not luc at mg at ol ! (D1 this 

bwll 1 cept ml cairn atlot and ml paddulz in 
gud rgpar. ^ woz hgr ; 1 woz thar — everi-hwar 


hwar the wonted me, and no hwar, hwer tha 
did not, wont ins. % attended tn ml on biznes, 
and strov tn csp out ov ths we ov thoz hu 
dhoz tu bs ml ensmiz, so that tha end attend 
tn thnrz. J rsfifzd tn dispgt; and bor, az 
wel az 5 end, ingendoz, offensez and slander. 

J nsn that, huever stupt tn thsz fhigzhurt him- 
self and hiz coz mor than he hurt ms or ths 
eoz that 5 espenzd. 

Wun mornig 5 woz eold In a nee, from ths 
brecfast tebul, tn tlis dor ov ths sittig rum. 

J found standig upon ths piazza thrs dignifld 
old men,* sdh ov hum wor a conntsnans mor 
ssvsr than 5 had ever ssn them ecspres bsfor. 

bad them in and etferd sdh wun a dher. 
The directli annonnst ths biznes that eozd ths 
erli vizit. Wun ov (hem began In saig: “ Ws 
hav cum tn toe with yn about this littul mst- 
ig-hons affar. Ws tliige yn hav mad a mistae. 
Yn ar yug, inecspsrienst and no dont yn du 
not no egzaetli hwot yn ar duig and hvvot ynr 

*Thez dire men wer Elderz in Hie Uniled First Church ev 
Amwel. — Wun ev them wez Jemz J. Fisher hu wez the warm- 
est trend i had, and hu wez desidedli die most indrienslial man 
in ol this rejun. — The rufful in the cors ev frendsliip, wez veri 
evanessent. Sun die so liu wer reg, and jeintli^the vizited me 
tu acnelej ther mister, and tu ecspres ther graftitipi tu me for' 
the cors * wez persipg and tu aslisliur me that the wer die mos* 
cordyal tu me and tu ol that S wez strivig tu effect. This 
frendsliip gru onli stregger and eur releshunz mor intimet until 
defh, wun hi wun, remuvd thez wurthiz tu ther final rest. 


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wurc, in this matter, wil led tu; and, ws hav 
cum tu perswed yn, if ws can, out ev yur wild 
nosfhunz, and sev yu a del ev trubul. The 
wurc that yu hav begun haz ©lredi mud us a 
del ev trubul, and if yu perzist, in yur cors, 
it wil mec mudh mor — in fact ws can’t tel 
hwer ths matter wil end. Neu, ws wont yn 
tu just cwit this wurc ov bildig metig-heuzez 
and giv yur undivided attensfhun tu tbs practis 
ov yur profeshun. Yu hav proven yurself a 
veri scilful fizisban and ws ol lie yu, and ws 
ol eni pie i yu, and hwet mor do yu wont? 
Ws don’t wont yu tu tsdh, ws don’t wont yu 
tu bild mstig-houzez — sudh wurc onli mucs 
trubul; but, ws do wont yu tu practis med- 
isin, and tu tuc cer ov us liwen ws ar sic, and 
at this yu hav sertinli snuf tu do, and ©t tu 
be satisfid. 

Ws hav cum az frendz tu perswed yu tu 
cwit both tbsz clndz ev wurc — the brig yu a 
bad nem, and no gud can cum out ov them.” 

Ml rspl! woz: am a tsdber; this iz ml 

colig ; and sins a dhlld, % hav dun not much 
els. S can’t cwit tsdhig, 5 tsch everi-hwer; — it 
iz mi duti; and hwetever $ hav accomplisbt J 
hav accomplish t bl tsdhig. Yu col ms a fi- 
zi^han — but if 5 hav bin ev eni servis tu eni 
ev yu, J hav dun it bl tsdhig yu hen tu liv. 
if hav sum cenfidens in ihs medisinzJI prsscrlb; 


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but m! dhef rslians iz upon tbs obsdiens ov 
tbs loz 0 v Netiir. And hou can yu obe disz 
loz until yn no bvvot tbsz loz ar? Don’t be 
dessvd: tbs scil ov tbs fizisfhan dspendz upon 
biz abiliti tu tsdh biz pesfhents, and tboz hu 
nurs them, tbs loz ov lit*. This iz tbs ritful 
offis ov tbs fizisfhan. Nor duz biz wurc, az a 
fizishan, end bsr. Ws nsd tn no dis loz ov lif 
liwen vvs ar wel. Ws nsd tn no dis loz ov lif 
espesfhalli liwen ws ar yug, tliat ws me escep 
tboz svilz that coz our ilz. And, in order tu 
comprehend tbs loz ov lit*, ws must no Anato- 
mi and Fizioloji; — ws must no tbs anatomi ov 
our on bodiz, that ov tbs bodiz ov udier ani- 
malz, and that ov plants: that iz, ws must hav 
a fhuro nolej ov Zooloji and Botani. And, 
sins ol nolej ov truth consplrz tu helth and 
bappines, ther iz nufliig in die hoi roundz ov 
lernig — siens, art, filosofi, bistori, poetri, fhsol- 
oji, etliics, et cetera — that iz not tbs loful prop- 
erti ov dis fizisfhan, nesesseri tn biz educe- 
sdiun, and fit thsmz for him az a Tscher. And, 
hwenever lie duz hiz dqti az a fizisdian, lie goz 
forth widi tbsz, livz bl them, and tsdhez them, 
hwenever an opportipiiti prszents. II wen 4 
woz a student, % strov tu pozzes a fill armor, 
and accwird it at a gret cost ov labor, and 
muni, ov prlvesflhun and self-denial that 4 mit 
be fulli armd for tbs battul ov lif az a fizisdian. 


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liens, non hvven this armor iz duig sudh effi- 
sfhcmt ware, and iz so. mudh nsded amug thoz 
with bum I go, $ cannot 1)8 persweded tu dof 
it. No! Non iz the tlm tu gird up ml loinz 
and tu se that everi acciaterment iz in wurcig 
Older. The conflict haz ferli begun, and I ec- 
spect tu be sccund tu no vvun in the fit.” 

“Wei, then,” sed the spoesman, ther iz but 
wun fhig left tu us — we must tit. We arsorri 
for it. We wil hav tu fit yu — yu ar the coz 
ov ol oui* trubul. If* yu vvud ewit yur fold 
and perversnes, ther vvud be no mor ov tiiis, — 
and yu must ewit. If yu wil not du it bl per- 
swezhun, yu wil hav tu be forst tu ewit; and 
we wil hav tu furs yu tu ewit.” 

At this stetment, I becem indignant; and, 
with a defiant smll, replld : “ Jentulmen ! 

widi dp deferens tu yur gra hedz, I sa it — yu 
can’t du it! — I am a soldyer in die coz ov lnp- 
maniti, and relijun ! Ml armor iz truth ! Ml 
bacig iz Providens ! $ am mardhig and I wil 

not be stopt.” 

The spoesman, in mudh ajitesliun, sed: 
“Doctor! we can tec yur bred and butter awe 
from yu — that wil stop yu. Yu cem arnug us 
a pur, penniles boi. Ol yu had woz yur lern- 
ig. We tuc yu bl die hand and invited yu tu 
our homz, gev yu empleiment, encurejd yu 
and onurd yu, and med yu liwot yu ar, with 


the hop that yu wild serv us in ol tlmz ©v nsd, 
and bs a cumfurt lu us in sicnes and in helth, 
and bs an enur and an ornament tu ©in* cem- 
muniti; yn hav accwird, thru us, a wid repn- 
tesfhun for scil and scelarship; yn liav a horn 
and ths emoluments insident tu a larj practis 
amur) welfhi farmerz; yn hav gret influens 
with, the yuij, az wel az with his ejed, — and 
n©u, ol tlisz fhiijz yu propoz tu turn agenst 
us, — tu mac us truhul: ws can’t her it — and 
ws wil n©t her it. Ws wont tu bs vnr frendz, 
az ws olwez hav bin; but ws cann©t stand 
tiiis! Depend up©n it, ws wil tec yur bred 
and butter aws from yu!” 

Ml rspl! w©z: “Yu me tec ml bred and 
butter, if yu wil! But yu can’t tec hwet iz 
most dsr tu ms, ml rslijus prinsipulz and mi 
abiliti tu tsdh truth. Tlisz ar min, and $ can 
enjei them, Ged bsig wiliij, in peverti az wel 
az in affiitens. $ no mi coz and I no mi bacii); 
I hav no fsrz. I invlt eppozisfoun from eni 
hu derz tu rez a banner agenst ths coz hwidh 
$ hav espouzd. I no that truth wil triumf, 
and that huever der ©ppoz it, wil bs overcum. 
If yu hav eni douts about this fact, I wil dem- 
©nstret ths truth ©v it in this contest. 

“Az for yur profest frendship, — I hav onli 
tu se : $ wont onli hwet $ merit. If yur frend- 
ship iz bot bi mi dsvoslhun tu truth, filanthro- 


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pi and pip* relijun, % hold it der; if it iz tu be 
wui) 1)1 ceterii] tu vis, immoraliti, and a cor- 
rupt practis ©v relijun, f spurn it; J loth it; J 
abhor it. Ml frond z ar frcndz tu truth, pre- 
gres and tu a hi Crist ianili. Az frond z, J on 
no utherz ; 5 des[)Iz eni uthcr. 

“Jj dent net that it iz difficult for yn, at this 
jugctip* ©v afferz, tu red ml motivz, and tu 
judj ml conduct. The tim wil cum hvvcn yu 
wil be in cendisfhun tu judj ferli. J trust tu 
tun, and rell ©n Providens, And J non luc 
forward tu a t!m hvven yu wil not onli dealer 
me tu be a trend tu yu, but olso that $ hav 
bin a trend tu, and a wurcer ©v gud tu, this 
entlr cemmipiiti. We ar in fhroldum; fhrol- 
dum tu vis, ignorans, and irrelijun. We can 
be emansipeted from this fhroldum onli bl a 
revolusfhun, ©utev hvvidh wil cum better fhirjz — 
mor intellijens, a better filanffiropi and mor 
devosfhun tu the coz ©v Crist. Hvven we hav 
gon ffiru this revoffisfhun, and hvven yu hav 
sen the rezult ©v it, nun wil rejois mor than 
yurselvz. Then yu wil wont tu strle handz 
with me ; then yu wil clem that, in ol ©v this, 
yu hav bin a co- wurcer. And, a co- wurcer, 
in this revolitsthun, yu wil hav tu be — even 
hvven, az non, yu fhirjc yu ar wurcir) agenst 
me. — And ther iz wun tliir) that, just her, J 
wisfh tu se : Hwotever yur handz- find tu do 


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in tills turmoil, provided onli that yn fsl that it 
iz dun pqrli for the Cristyan eoz, du it rmmfnlli 
and du it with a will — For, in so duig, yu wil 
be, with ms, a eo-wurcer, — both strlvig, even 
hvven we ssm tu bs antagonistic, tu accom- 
plish tli s sem gud.” 

Hsrupon ws parted. Q feu daz later the 
coggrsgashun ov the Prezbiterian Church held 
a mstig for ths purpus ov discusig the fezibiliti 
ov muvig thar dhurdh edifis from Plezant Coi - 
ner tu Riggoz. At this mstig a cworrel ensqd. 
Ths majoriti wisfht tu lsv ths hens hwar it 
stud and fltyunltedli tiis ensmi, ths m\ dhurefh 
enterprlz, tu ecsterminesfhun. But, a facsfhun, 
most ov hum livd in, or nsr, ths villaj, wer 
clamorus tu muv yunainimusli tu Riggoz, tu 
bed of, az the sed, ths Baptist Churdh muv- 
ment. Ths cworrel rajd ; and enmitiz wer en- 
jenderd that hav never hsld, and fqdz began 
that wil not dT, until, at tlis lest, ths defli ov ths 
children ov ths yuggest ov thoz hu attended 
that mstig. Ths coggrsgashun consisted ov 
about 400 memberz. 

Ths mstig woz adjured tu a da that happend 
tu don amid a terrific sno-storm. Ths arwoz 
intensli cold, ths wind blu fqriusli, ths sno 
drifted until, sumtlmz, it woz not pessibul tu 
ss a man twenti fst awa from yu. In meni 
plasez, ths bagos wer hi and ths rodz impas- 


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sibul. Az profeslhunal diitiz cempeld ms tu 
go tu the houzez ov sum hu wer sic, $ tuc 
with ms, in ths sic, an acs, a sfhuvel and a man 
tu help ms yuz them, tu wurc ml we hwither J 
had tu go. AVs sfhuveld Ihru hi baqcs, cut 
do tin fensez tu let us out ov ths rod intu ths 
fsldz, and from wun fsld intu an u flier; crest 
didhez and revsnz cuverd with sno, at tlis rise 
ov our llvz and that ov ths horsez, and fot our 
we around tu bom agen with ths utmost le- 
bor and fat eg. In ol our reundz, dqrijg ths 
fornun, ws so not a man, nor a bsst, upon ths 
rodz. At 2 o’cloc, P. M., S woz summend tn 
ths lions ov wun in tbs villej hu bsloqd tu ths 
mlnoriti faesdiun ov ths dhurdh muvment. 
The storm stil rejd — if possibul, mor fqriusli 
than it did dqrig the fornun. But, az % past 
thru ths villej, i so several ov ths mlnoriti 
men sfhuvelir) sno, and brecig ths rodz Upon 
asciq, f woz informd that the wer prsperig tu 
attend flis dhurdh mstip ; that upon that after- 
nun it wild bs dstermind h wether ths old 
dhurdh sdiud bs muvd tu ths villej; that the 
fliot ths storm woz a Ged-send and the in- 
tended tu tec advantej ov it. 

II wen J arrlvd at ths hens ov ths ledi hum 
J woz summend tu vizit, sfhs — a gud old pe- 
sfhent, wun that I* dsrli luvd, tenderli cerd 
for and gretli adinlrd for meni ov her sterlig 


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cwolitiz — woz in a terribul fez about, attendig 
church metig. The matter wez so lafabul tu 
ins that, IE o'gv vent tu ml feligz in a gud barti 
laf. But it vvez not so lafabul tu her. She 
sed, u Hvvi du yu laf? The occezhun iz im- 
portant, and 31 fel that the Lord iz colig an me 
tu du ml part in this grot conflict, and 5 fel 
that IE must du it. And non J wont tu no 
hwether it iz pessibul for yu tu so bundul me 
up that 5 me be tecen tu the dliurdh without 
the rise ov tecig ml doth ov cold; and if yu 
fhige it iz at ol pessibul, S wont yu tu du it.” 

Qovn fE woz eenvulst with lafter. r fhe wu- 
man had not bin out ov the lions for munfhs, 
and she sed she had not bin tu the church for 
a yer. But, ^ vented ml yumur in telig her 
that, 5 fhot sfhe cud ezili go; that the spirit for 
gud that woz in her and that prompted her tu 
brev tliis inclement wether wud def! eni storm — 
even a ran ©v pi tdh fores witli the tinz doun- 
ward; fliat hwen a gud, zelus, church wnman 
felt that she woz cold upon tu brev the ele- 
ments for the Lord’z coz, she wud go thru fir 
or woter, sno or Is, with az littul rise ov helfh 
az a duel'll] incurz in a Me shouer; — that dqr- 
ii] a relijus revival J had sen wimen, — yug, del- 
icet, frel and in il-helfh, with that dep, hollo, 
rigig, consumptiv cof that so unmistecabli in- 
dicets a . censumpshun ov lug tishshg, — stand 


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upon the Is, in livvidh a hoi had bin cut for 
baptismal purpusez, amid a north wind that 
mad die dagz, liwidh happend tn be present 
with thar onerz, shiver and trembul til tha ©1- 
most shuc thar talz lias from thar bediz, — a- 
watig thar turn tn go daun into die Is-cold 
woter tn be emerst; and az tha aroz from the 
woter, thar clothz wer instant li frozen so stif 
dia cud hardli woe in them; — ” 

1 gat no farther with nil toe just then. The 
old ladi did nat wont tu her enifhig about die 
fortitgd av the Baptist wimen! Lucig me 
sternli in the fas, she pert 1 i sed: “Well If 
the Baptist wimen can stand frezig lie that, — 
just for the sac ov beig emerst, sertinli I can 
stand it tu go tu this dhurdh metig; and I 
wont yu tu ewit yur toe andjics me up tu 
go.” And I did. I rapt her and padded her, 
with wullenz, and sholz, and does and hudz 
and rubber gezamerz, and wullen stecigz, over 
her shiaz, and a par av men’z rubber Inats 
over thez yet; and then widi valz tld about 
with handeerdhifs, til yu neflier so fas nor fe- 
tqr ; nor cud she se dallt. II wen she aroz tu 
be led tu the sla, she luct lie an elefantln hep 
av drl gudz, otomaticalli rniavig for die sport 
av spectatorz. Az sfhe aroz, her sun-in-lo, 
Dr. A. M. II., faseshusli sed: a Muther! Tlier 
iz wun thig yu ned yet; yu ot tu hav a big 


wnl-stecig — larj snuf tu d ro dean over yur bed 
and sholderz, tu cap ol tiioz raps in pies and 
tu hug them up agenst yu better.” 

We partli led her and partli carrid her tu the 
sle. From the tlm I adjusted die raps over her 
fes til she wez dost in the dhurdh she sed she 
did not se de-llt. And, livven she arrlvd in die 
dhurdh, she had her raps unpind, and turnd 
over (hi a ficsttirthat I had centrlvd) onli enuf 
tu let lit in tu wun I so that she end se tu red 
die tieet she intended tu vot; so ferful wer 
dioz hu had her in dharj that, if the raps beeem 
derenjd the wud net be ebul tu seciirli adjust 
die in a gen. 

II wen stlie returnd, we unrapt her, and found 
her harti, and in gnd spirits, — nz everi bedi ar 
liwen the serv the Lord, at die riseev ther llvz. 
Az $ wez remuvir) the raps $ sed: u Wei ! 
Granni! did yu cep worm?” — She replld: “O 
yes, Deetor! az worm az tost; and, I never so 
a re ev lit from the tlm $ left horn til J< redht 
die dhurdh; and from the tlm I left die dhurdh 
til I redht horn agen! Yu dost me up so se- 
citrli! And yu don’t no hen much satisfac- 
shun tiier wez in attendig tiiat dhurdh metig! 
And we muvd the liens! — or, rather, we desld- 
ed tu muv it tu die villej rlt awe.” 

Utherz thei* wer, old men az wel az old wim- 


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en, liia, it iz sed, underwent az mudh prepare- 
shun tu get thro this terribul storm tn ths 
dhurdh tu attend this mstig, az ml pesfhent 
ahuv dsscrlbd; but, tu tics thsz wez net ml 
let. 

Tbs in s tig pruvd tu bs veri wun-sided. 
Ecseptig ths facsfhun hu wisht tu miav ths 
dhurdh, veri fsu wer prezent, — r in fact meni ev 
ths memberz ev ths uther parti livd tia, fhrs, 
for or flv mllz awe. So, it wez impessibul for 
meni ev them tu get tu ths dhurdh. ©v cors, 
the hu sled at horn suppozd flier wud bs no 
mstig, ths wether bsig so ecstrsmli ssvsr and 
flis rodz bsig so cemplstli hid up with sno- 
ot rifTts. But, the hid wer ther med ths best ev 
ths epportpniti, dsslded that ths hens sfhud bs 
midvd tu tlis villej and best upen a tlni for 
cemmensig eperesfhunz, appointed cemmittsz 
tu effect planz &C/, &c. 

Meni hid wer net at this mstig wisfht ths mat- 
ter ev midvig ths dhurdh rscensiderd. Bl hue 
and bl cruc, the sucssded in gettig anuther 
mstig. It happend upen a dehweii ths travelig 
wez better, and, olmost, if net cwlt, ths entlr 
ceggrsgesfhun wer prezent. Bl a vot ev this 
mstig, it wez dsslded that ths dhurdh sfhud 
net bs muvd. Ct split in ths dhurdh ensiid. 
Ths mineriti facsfhun went tu Kiggoz and ther 
or<ranIzd tu bild a dhurdh edifis, with ths dec- 


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& 


laresfliun that the wild bild a lions for wurship 
in Riggoz and therin wursfhip. It* die Prezbi- 
teri wild recogniz them az a Prezbiterian bodi, 
the dhurdh wild be Prezbiterian; but if* the 
Prezbiteri refpzd tn tec them bl the hand, the 
wild orgamz flier dhurdh upon ttie besis held 
bl the memberz ©v the M. 8. dhurdh. 0v eors, 
az the Prezbiteri woz eger tn oppoz the inve- 
zliunev flie Baptists, flie held the \n\ muv and 
thus began flie Cirepatrie Memorial Churdh. 

Az bad felirj had bin enjenderd betwen the 
memberz ov the rival Prezbiterian bodiz; and 
az flie had declerd wor agenst edh u flier, we 
resevd les insults, les ©ppozishun, and had a 
littul mor fredirm ov miavment. In fact, the 
old dhurdh, closli obzervii) our miavments, and 
seiij that we wer intent upon attendig tn our on 
biznes, sun lernd tn resjiect, us, and tn luv us. 
Thru ther ©bzervesliunz, the sun lernd that 
©nr motivz wer not tn oppoz Prezbiterianizum, 
or the izum ov eni u flier sect ; that we profbnndli 
respected Prezbiterianizum, and flie dhurdhez 
ov ol uther denoininesfhunz hwidh liv up tn 
flier cred and cep themselvz pgr and effisdient 
for gnd; that we wer fevord bl Providers and 
wer becumig a Cristyan poner, the in Aliens ov 
hwidh woz onli gnd — and gnd conti mialli ; 
that we wer cwiet and pes-luvig, and livd ac- 
cordig tn flie doctrin we tot. The sot ©nr 


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eumpani, spoc ©v us in termz ov respect and 
promoted our welter. Thu invited dioz hu 
predht at the Baptist Hons tu predh in ther 
pulpit, and ©ffcrd ther pastor tu predh in the 
Baptist Hons; and, in meni udier wez treted 
the Baptist coz az a } T ugger sister, febul and 
inecsperienst, but wurthi, pip* in intensdiun, and 
zelus in a gud coz. And, we, az sun, lernd 
tu respect the old dhurdh for die boundles 
gud — nou that she had bin pprifTd bi the split 
and the fredum from the CGiitaminetii] ele- 
ment — that thoz in her wer manifest^, and for 
her zel tu promot yigorusli a coz hwidh so lop 
bad bin in a stet ©vletharji. J, mor! We re- 
joist tu se, in this purificasdiun ov die old 
dhurdh, a nassent zel tu becum pur, effishent 
and zelus. This woz the first frut ov our la- 
bor! and so sun guild! — And we rejoist the 
mor becoz we perse vd that the so us az we 
wer, and that thu acnolejd that ©nr wurc had 
brot grut gud tu them. Thu declurd openli 
that our wurc had cozd the old hlv tu sworm; 
and that, in sworm ip, the Baca noli a nz ov die 
old corpgregashun had abandund die old hlv, 
under the pretens ov dhurdh grofh, tu sec a 
plus in hwidh die rlts ov Bacus cud be practist 
without repruf, and, in hwidh, thur Bacanalian 
madnes end liav unbrlduld swu. 


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Tbs old hlv, neu (red from this Baeic ele- 
ment, wez in pes, prosperiti and in condishun 
for Cristyan wurc. The began, at wuns, tu 
til thar feld ; and, olmost ar the neu it, an 
abundant harvest sprag up that gladdend ther 
harts beyond ecspresfhun, — a hundred solz wer 
aded tn ther number, b! baptizum, in a sir)- 
gul da. 

But dqrig ol this hwll, the mi facsfhun had 
no gud wurd, lucor ded for us. The hated us 
az cenli az Bacants ever hated Cristyanz. 
Tha persecuted us az zelirsli az tlm and sir- 
cumstansez wad alien. H wot ever tha fhot 
tha end effect bl slander tha lad thar tugz tu. 
In this persecqsfhun, fqdz aroz — vigorus, fers 
and damajig; fqdz that ar stil at wurc in everi 
affar ev ear villaj and cemmqniti, and that wil 
net end with the prezent jenerasfhun. 

Qmid ol this, the wurc ©v bildig the liens for 
the Baptists, and hwotever uther denomina- 
sfhunz mlt wisfh tu ©ccqpT it, progrest; and, in 
dq tlm, it wez completed. It iz a plan, inecs- 
pensiv, fram structqr, twenti for fet wld and 
forti for fet leg. It cost $1790.93. It wez 
dedicated tu the wursdiipev God, upon the 12th, 
ev Ogust, 1868, — hi an attendans ev interest- 
ed pepul that wud hav hid, tu overfloig, a liens 
ev fiv timz its capasiti. The eccazhun wez 
intensli selem. Meni cam a leg distans, — 


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deutles tu hav a gad tlm and til se disturb- 
ansez, ta her dissenshunz and centenshunz. 
But, tbs ernestnes ev tbs feu hu wer direetli 
censernd in ths matter redieted its sefenig, 
moldig inflgens upon ©1, selemniti pervededev- 
eri hart, ths ceuntsnans ev everi wun shon 
with zsl for tbs were ev tbs de, order everi- 
bwer vvez perfect, a stilnes az ifgatherd around 
a dlig sent preveld, az rneni az cud sit in ths 
pqz and stand in tiis Hz enterd tbs bens; fhrls 
az meni mor, with uncuverdhedz — in tbs breil- 
ig sun— formd in llnz — stud reverentli bssld 
and in frunt ev ths bens — intent tu her everi 
vvurd that wez utterd, and tu ss everi fhig 
that vvez dun. Az old father Web, (G. S. 
Web, d. d., ho prsedit the dedicatorial sermon) 
in tbs cors ev biz rsmai'cs steted that “the 
bildig ev this littul bens haz bin censsvd and 
pusfht forward bl zelus advocets ev a pgr relij- 
un; bl men bu fsl ths usd ev a heus ev war- 
ship; buz egzampulz sho that (he hold ths 
Cristyan rslijun, and ths warship ev Ged, dsr- 
er tu them than eni utber ebject; bu hav shon 
a wilignes tu sacrifls eni, or ol, ths cam farts 
ev Hf for ths coz ev a pgr rslijun; — bu hav 
wiligli perild repgteshun, helth, and sven Ilf tu 
erect a hens in bwidh Ged shal be wurshipt 
in print i, in spirit, and in truth; a heus in 
bwidh ths rslijas spirit ev thoz hu wurship 


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sbal be az fre az ar; but a hens in liwieh die 
wursfliip o v Beal or Bacus shal never be prac- 
tist. And non me God grant that He, and 
lie onli, be forever wursfhipt her; and (bat this 
“littul wun,” so nobli strugglig for a t cm pul 
for Divin wursfhip sfhal liv tu number a diou- 
zand, and its inflqens for gud sfhal bs commen- 
sbiaret witti the wisdiez ev its founderz,” ap- 
parently from everi part ov die coqgregasdiun 
in die lions, and from everi cworter ov thoz 
congregated around die lions, aroz a loud, a 
hart-stirrig: “Ctmen!” 

Hwen die dedicatorial seremoniz ov die 
morniq wer ended, the pepul liggerd. Sven 
the clerical jentulmen wer slo tu lev the ground. 
And yet, feu wer incllnd tu toe — so pensiv 
semd everi persun. Old Decon Nicolas O. 
Durham* ov Wertsvil, dien nerli SO yerz old, 
az he held me bl wun hand and Andru In 
the uther sed tu us am an old man and hav 
bin lor) in die dhurdli, and hav attended meni 
metigz at liwidh cdiurdh bildiqz, — ov die verius 

*K. O. Durham wez a man ev gret inflqens in Amwel. He 
wez noted for sagasiti, perse verans, upritnes, lienor, and stabili- 
ti. Hs wez regarded a wiz and sef counselor, a wurthi sitizen. 
a gud nabur, and a consistent cristyan. In die Baptist Church 
at Wertsvil, N. J., he wez a Decen, wun ev its most influen- 
slial memberz, and for meni yerz, wun ev its chef svpporterz. 

For wit and yumur he wez az favorabli non az eni man in this 
rejun. Az a critic, he wez the most sever. 8 veil the clerji dicl 
net escep hiz sercliii) i and hiz sever ebzerveshunz. 


m) 


(18119 mi nastfiunz, — hav bin dedicated'; but I 
hav never attended sudh a metig az tliis. It 
iz a veri selem eccazhun — -even bedi iz sel- 
era; — I hav never sen die lie. —The prezens ev 
9 nr Maeer iz in eur midst.” 

Hwll hs woz speeig and lioldig us bl die 
bandz, old Father Web, fellod bl several u flier 
cjerjimen, cam toordz us, az we thot, tu salqt 
ths gad decen. Accord ipli ws stept apart a 
littul, so fliat Mr. Web wild be in frunt ev 
tli s decen. But, az he cam ner enuf, he plast 
hiz lit hand upon Andru’z sLolder, and hiz left 
hand upen min, and began tu sa: “Yup men, 
y u ar stranjerz tu me; but I wont tu cengrat- 
illat yu. Yu ar engajd in a gud wurc her; 
and yu hav begun lit. Be stedfast; die Lord 
iz with yu, and He wil mac yu strep; tiler iz no 
difficult that yu ma net overcum: lie wil raz 
up thoz liu wil gatiier round yu and ddyu; 
and, ar leg, yu wil organlz a littul dhurdli her- 
and, He wil mac yu glad with incres in the 
dhurdli, — and in the revival ev relijun everi- 
liwar abeutyu. — Azyu hay begun, socentinq. 
Hav no cempremlz with lust, — with die votariz 
ev Bacus or ev Baal. The peuer ev relijun 
iz in its pqriti. The a meant ev gud a feu 
pqr- minded, zel us Cristyanz can du iz incalcq- 
labul. — Be net advlzd ev men: luc wel tu yur 
censLens and tu Ged, and be strep, yup men! 


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Be nobul; be sifjgul-mliided and tbs Lord wil 
inec yur wurc her a sucses.” 

The toe ev thsz tu candid old wurdiiz gratli 
encurajd us. Nicolas O. Durham we regarded 
az wun ev the wlzest, the sfhrudest and most 
sinser lemen diat we had ever non; hwil old 
Fadier Web wez then acnolejd tu be the oldest, 
the wlzest, the most prudent, the most venera- 
bul and die most plus clerjimen in our stat. 
Tu hav our wure ap[>ruvd hi men lie diez wez 
wurfh niudh tu us, and insplrd us with an in- 
cresev enerji. 

The me tii] ev the after-nun I did net attend — 
az profesliunal servis tuc me, dip-ig tiiez eurz, 
tu the l'umz ev the sic. Az Andru wez diar, I 
lieu everi diig ivud be attended tu premptli, 
and everi fhig wild be cept in order. The at- 
tendans wez larj and die ecserslzez impresiv. 
At die eveniij metiij both ev us wer. — It iz 
hardli wurth hwil tu s a that eur harts wer fill 
ev jei. The da tu hwidli we had luct with so 
meni hops, and with sudh in tens angzieti, wez 
clozig — gloriusli. We wer reallziij mor dian 
eur ecspeetasliunz. We felt the reword ev ear 
labor wez mor than we dezervd! At die sam 
tmi, we felt that we wer, az yet, onli preparii) 
for ware, and befor we retlrd that nit, we de- 
termiud tu organlz a Sunda-Scul en die felloig 
Sabbadi; and, tu organlz a Churdh, heuever 


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smol, az sun az possibul. Assisted 1)1 Dr. 
Wilyam D. Merril, then a student ev naedisin 
in ml offis, Aiulria, with a fsu that wer meinherz 
ov Baptist dhnrdhez, and lua livd in, or about, 
ths v'illaj, organlzd the Pen dhildren that met 
with them into a Sunda-Scial. Az smol az 
ths soul woz, it occqpld nurdh ov liiz t!m, 
dip'ig the rsmander ov ths Summer and Otum. 
He endevord tu start this scial arlt, with tbs 
hop that ever after it wad bs cept rit. Tn sbo 
ths prscosfhun tu hwidli ws both gav attensfhun, 
it sdiiid bs stated that ths const itipfhun ov that 
Sunda-Scul stated that no sectarianizum shal 
bs tot in this Scul, and that eni buc* ritten up- 
on a fictisfhus basis, or savorig ov fiesfhun or 

* Olmost az sian az tile Suede-Seal wez organize!, the Bap- 
tist Church at Flemigtun prezented the Sunfie-Sci.il at Riggoz 
with a llbreri that the had yuzd forahwil. The hues wer in gud 
cendishun, and net old — nq enuf and in gud cendishun enuf for 
eni llbreri. But befor the cud be plest upen tile slielvz ev tile 
buc ces in the Baptist Chapel at Riggoz, tile lmd tu be eg/amind, 
so that, ev them, nun ecsept bucs ev pip-, substanshal, truthful 
1 iterator sliud beeum a part ev tile nq llbreri. The bucs wer brot 
tu mi effis, — 1100 ev them — and earful li led in a pil. Az An 
dru and Dr. Wm. D. Merril had bin appointed a cemmitte tu 
egzamin bucs, purchas bucs and attend tu the llbreri, tile be- 
gan the wurc ev egzamineshun, .pieig the first buc within recli, 
az the sat in ezi cherz bl the pil, and redig it, or so much ev it 
az semd nessesseri tu form a fer besis ev an opinyun ev its cen- 
tents and its merits At the cloz ev the first de tile had egzam 
ind abeut a hundred bucs, and eut ev the hundred the had ad- 
mitted 3 bucs tu die nq llbreri. Out ev 1100 bucs tile admitted 
onli abeut 45 velqmz! 


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fWveliti sfhal not bs alleud a pies in the llbrari 
ev this Scul. Az a censecwens, az leg az he 
livd, the llbrari wez cept fre from that centam- 
inatig literatqr that peizenz the mlndz ev meni 
hu red Sunda-Scul hues. 

Gleg with hiz Sunda Scul wurc, lie began 
tu vizit the feu Baptist pep el hu livd in or 
abeut the villaj tu assertan h wether ther wer 
eni wilig tu yiinlt with him in formig a Baptist 
Cliurdh tu wursfhip in the mi dhapel. At tiiat 
tlm, ther livd in Riggoz, Hand Yug, Eldridj 
Gren and wlf, Carman Hil and wlf, hu wer 
memberz ev Baptist Churdhez. Jen Redig 
and wif and David Bend and wlf livd abeut a 
mil awa, hwll IVilyam Dali and wlf livd mor 
tlian flv mHz awa. Eldridj Gren ev Serjents- 
vil, 17. J. and Carman Hil ev Flemigtun, 
Y. J. bot prepertiz in Riggoz az sun az dia 
wer assfhurd that the Baptist Chapel wud be 
bilt. 

At a metig ev thez pepul, Qgust 13di, 1868, 
a ceunsil wez invited tu cenven at the Chapel 
tu egzamin die prosediir ev thez Baptist ele- 
ments and tu recegnlz diem az a Regular Bap- 
tist Church. 

The abuv namd partiz, at wuns, in order tu 
becum the constituent memberz ev a mi dhurdh, 
sot and ebtand letterz ev dismisal frem the sev- 
eral dhurdhez tu hwidh tha had belegd. AYith 


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thez letterz in hand, upon the 1st da ev Sep- 
tember, 1868, the toned that relijus bedi, after- 
wardz so wel and so fuvurabli non az the Bap- 
tist, Churdh at Riggoz, N. J. 

Upon the secimd da ev September, 1868, 
the.ceunsil eon vend, and beig satisfid with the 
prosed ip* ov die n\\ bedi, recegnlzd it az a Reg- 
ular Baptist Churdh. Andru’z vvurc 11011 as- 
sign d larjer proporshunz, and into it he enterd 
with that simplisiti, candor, ernestnes and en- 
erji that wun fli8 respect ev ol he met and 
mad the affarz gv the dhurdh presperus. 

Az yet, no persun in Riggoz had herd him 
predh, and ther wer onli a feu that neu that he 
did predh, or diat he wgz preparig for die min- 
istri. But, upon the third Sunde after the 
Chapel wgz dedicated the persun hu had en- 
gajd tu predh for us fald tu cum. The hens 
wgz pritti wel fild widi pepul, and meni began 
tu slio disappointment. Butaz the euramvd, 
Andru aroz from hiz set in the bedi gv the 
hens, woct up intu the pulpit, red a him, and 
az he sat donn, began tu sip it. Ov cors ther 
wgz yet no cwir, and am up thoz gv Baptist 
proclivitiz ther wgz net wun, besTd himself, hu 
cud raz a tipi, or dard tu even help tu sip. 
But, cvvicli a feu hu had cum out gv cqriesiti, 
and hia wer wel verst in siijip, stird In the mel- 
odi ev hiz veis, uncensliusli, tha sed, jeind him, 


and die sag die him thru with a wil. Then 
fellod Hie ©rdineri roten ©v ecserslzez, vvidi 
liwidh ol semd veri agreabli surprlzd. The 
candor, siinplisiti, ernest.nes and enerji diat 
caracterlzd everi element ©v die ecserslzez en- 
jenderd in ol die liosfhun that, suinhwar and 
sumheu, that b©i had aecwird a larj ecsperiens 
in the vvurc ©v the ministri, and that he w©z 
veri edisdient in hiz colig. Profesfhunul engej- 
ments prevented me from attendig die metig, 
and ©n ml return hom, IE met several lna had 
bin tu 'die dhapel and had herd him jiiedli. J 
notist that in meni cesez, sum lua felt a dep 
interest in ©nr relijus wurc, selgted me, mor 
loli than eemrnen, and at wuns $ began tu 
cweri die coz ©v it. But, brigig up the rer ©v 
the tren ©v metig-focs w©z ml gud frend, and 
wlz counselor, Nicolas O. Durham lna stopt 
hiz hors and cold tu me tu st©p. Sr ml hors 
had cum tu a stand-stil, die Dec©n w©z seig: 

hav bin tu dhurdh and $ luct for yu dmr; 
and in beig absent, ® diigc yu mist mudh. That 
b©i ©v yurz predhez wel ! We hav ol had a 
grand tret this mornig. Ther w©z no part ©v 
tiie ecserslzez that w©z wontig in impresivnes, 
and az for the sermen — it w©z ecsellent: — and 
witheut a not he toct it tu us so plan, so can- 
did, so hartfelt that we wer ol glad diat die 
Predher appointed tu til die pulpit, had fold tu. 


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cum. % hav herd a gret meni yug men predh, 
and az a rial, ther sermenz did nut amount tu 
much — and then ther iz ofen so much parafer- 
nelia that it speilz much gud that, the m!t uth- 
erwlz did. But diis hoi goz at the wurc az if 
it wer a com men pies biznes for him — az much 
so az wun avikI if he had gron up in die pulpit. 
And then the laggwej he yuzez iz so plen and 
so appropriet; and he specs hiz wirrdz in a we 
that wun can’t mistec, and he gets in no hur- 
ri — and hwen he iz dun tocig on eni point, he 
cvvits — lie don’t cep the mil runnig after the 
grist iz out. 

“He iz goig tu prech agen this afterman, 
and $ tel yu, ther wil be a fill lions; — if yu 
wont a set yu wil hav tu be ther erli. But, 
with Ol hiz smartnes, J fer he wil overdid die 
matter, — tiiat he wil becum egzosted.” 

►£ neu Andria’z merits fill wel, but tu her 
such gloig remarcs from so sharp, and yet so 
cosh us a crit ic az Decon Durham woz wel non 
tu be, ovcrcem me a littul — tia much tu alien 
me tu repll, at wuns. But hwen % becem a 
littul mor eempozd J remarct : “Andria wil 
olwez dia hiz ditfi — desentli and in order. T< 
am glad that he did not alien the pulpit tu be 
vacant, and ? am glad that hvvot he sed haz 
bin acseptabul tu yu.” 


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“Tbs I)seen evidentli thoi mi comments wer 
In tem, and cwidi and sfharpli rspltd : “Yu 
nsd net be ashemd ev that, bei; I tel yu be iz 
a talented fello. And it* he rsgenz biz belth, 
he wil bscum a man ev gret peuer and gret 
inflqens for gud. Everi bedi lies bint. 

Everi bedi hu herd him this mornig se the 
ar cumig ent this afterman, and that die ar 
goig tu brig ol ther frendz. That liens iz net 
big snuf for him. If yu intended that lie shud 
prsdh in it, it ot tu hav bin bilt biger. Sudh 
men dro creudz.” 

I hesend bom, attended tu sum peshents bn 
wer wetig for ms at mi effis, az best i 1 i az I end, 
and went tu tbs liens tu ss hen Andria wez. 
IIs wez rscllnig upen a leunj, lucig rather pen- 
si vli at a dber nsr him that bs evidentli ecs- 
pected ms tu eccqpl. 

Az I sat deun, I sed, az plefulli az I end: 
“Heu du yu fsl?” “Oil fsl az wel az yuzb- 
gal” wez tbs rspli. Az I so that bs wez net 
veri t!rd, and luet premisig for tbs afternnn’z 
wurc, I sed: “Wel! yu bad tu prsdh this 
mornig, did yu?” — Hs rsplld: “Wel! yes! I 
fhot I bad better prsdh — tbs foes bad gatherd 
and tbs minister did net cum.” 

With a plefui ar I sed: “Wel! that’s gud 
for yu. Yu ot tu prsdh! But, yu didn’t seer 


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the foes ol out 0 v the, liens, did yu? Thoz that 
5 met en the rod horn ward S8md tu he goii] in 
sudh a hurri.” “O ! no ! ” wez hiz repli, u tha 
ssmd tn stand it pritti wel, f tliot.” 

Bl this tlrn, vvs wer cold In dinner. Nufhig 
nior wez sed just then a bent dhurdh matterz. 
Qbeut tu o’clec, J asct him liwet arranjments 
wer mad for the afternun servisezat the dhurdh. 
HereplTd: U Q metig iz appointed at for o’clec; 
hut ther iz no minister her yet, and f fliigc 
tiler wil he nun. J ecspect that yu or i wil 
hav tu predh — and ^ tliiijc it iz yur turn neu — 
6 it wil he gud for yu’ and yu ma az wel begin 
at wuns, and get yuzd tu it; for, if predhig iz 
tu he mantand her yu wil hav tu du yur part . 
The ministerz ev the naburig dhurdhez, az wel 
az thoz farther remuvd, fhige that onli a veri 
sinol ceggregashun can he gatherd her, and 
az a censscwens die dhurdh iz net in cendisfh- 
un tu pa them for thar servisez. Hens we ned 
net, for a livvll yet, ecspect tuseegr a minister 
for this pulpit — miles we happen tu lern ev 
sum wun ho iz entirli eut ev emplei, or sum 
wunz, neu and then, lira ar wilig tu cum her 
wuns or so, eut ev cqriesiti. For a liwil, we 
wil hav tu cep this fhig goig eurselvz, and dien 
hwen we hav gatherd a larjer ceggregasfhun we 
ma ventitr tu ecspect tu seepr suppllz. The 


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wurc 9 v gatherig a ceggrsgasfhun we. wil hav 
tu du.” 

Ml rspli woz: “ Just so! And, ws wil du 
it. But, I fhigc yu had better prsdh this af- 
terman.” 

Littul mor wez sed just then. I advlzd him 
tn tee a nap; ©v eors hs felled ml advls. Jn 
about an eur hs awoc brlt and fresh, — but wez 
a littul inch nd tu eof. Purpusli, I eeciipld hiz 
mind until ths eur had fulli arrlvd. I cud ss 
that a larj cencors ev pspul had assembuld at 
ths dhapel. Sloli ws woct tugether over tu ths 
heus. Bsfor ws rsedit it ws met sum old wur- 
thiz, a mug hum wez Dscen Durham hu, az hs 
did en ths da ev ths dedicashun, graspt us sdli 
b! ths hand, and holdig tu us with sudh tsnas- 
iti az ecsprest hiz interest in ths wurc ws had 
espeuzd, bsgan tu sa: “IE am so glad Andru 
that yu ar wel snuf tu cum out. Ths heus iz 
fill, and yu ss ol thoz pspul stand ig around — 
tha can’t get in; and I wil hav tu sta out tu, 
I ecspect. It iz a piti ths heus had net bin bilt 
biger. But go en in; tha ar agcshusli Inch] 
for yu!” 

So, ws stept forward, ths Dscen, bstwsn us, 
stil holdig tu eur handz, — until ws stept upon 
ths platform bsfor ths dhapel dor. Az I luct 
in thru ths dor, I so that ths heus wez ful — 
sven ths II wez creuded with pspul standig up. 


(F jgnlli forst; mT we up the Tl, And'ru felloir) 
hai-d hi, until *f redht the pulpit, at hwidh j 
timid tu ml left tn adjust a windo, hull he 
slept up i nt u the pulpit, and pic-t up a him-biie 
tu red. The wether woz intensli hot, and die 
hrez wez veri fent. * at vvuns arrenjd the 
windoz tu seeip- the best ventilesfhun pessibul, 
and az >E turnd from mi wure tu se lieu the ar- 
rsnjment silted, * so him standig with a hue o- 
pen redi tu red az sun az if wez redi tu be 
cwTet. 

® held never be for sen ml bruther az a prsdh- 
er in a pulpit — $ had never befor sen liwot hs 
rsaili woz. Ther woz not, a pies for ms tu sit , 
so ^ stud — so absorbd in hiz rsdir], and so for- 
getful- ov miself, and ml appsrans, that J for- 
got tu tee of ml hat; and so i stud— with ml 
hat on dijriij ol ths servisez. * 

Hiz rsdir] insplrd a dispozisfhun tu sir]; so 
after rezig ths tun hs sat doun, and ths sigh] 
went on vigorusli without hiz ed. Iliz redig 
ov ths scripturz woz tecig — espesfhalli tu ths 
ejed. Hiz sermon woz a plen, homspun, gos- 
pel sermon, az frs from fiouerz and paiafernel- 
ia az if hs had never sen a ware upon Compo- 

* H wen die servisez wer ended, a sertin ledi lm, at that tim, 
welded much in likens, sed tu me ; Dector ! If S had a bru tiler 
liu cud prech az yur bruther duz, * sertinli wud sho him respect 
enuftu tec ef mi hat hwil he iz prschig. But yu did net tec 
ef yur hat even hwil he wez efferii) prer.” 


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zisThun or Iietoric. But sumliou it get thru 
in tia the harts ev thoz lua herd him, stird diem 
with Cristyan luv, and inspTrd in them a zed for 
ths coz ev Crist; and in the harts ev thsz it 
enjenderd a respect for him and tor h wet ever 
he undertnc that gna with thar nccwantans 
with him until hiz defli. Nor haz the wurc ev 
diat afterman yet did! nor wil it dl! — It wil 
liv en and liv ever, moldig die harts ev thoz 
hu hav bin horn sins hiz deth; and it wil mold 
the harts ev meni lua ar yet tn he horn. 

Hwen the cerjgregasfhun wez dismist, the pe- 
pul liggerd. Az het az it wez, meni remand 
in thar pqz, pensiv and legii], az if censtrand 
tu abld Invar tha wer until tha cud her m or ev 
the sam cind ev spiritual fiad. Meni ev thoz 
in the Ilz tarrid, — apparentli tn hav a dhans tu 
sihac the hand ev the yui] man huz hart semd 
tu bet onli in dhlm with the hart ev Crist. 
Out ev dorz wer watii) several elderli men and 
elderli wimen, tn sfhae the hand ev wun tlia 
wer plezd tn col thar yu^ bruther. But, in ol 
ev this, J herd (and ^ herd abeut ol that wez 
sed, — tlie hoi tint J wez bl hiz sld) net wun 
cengratulat him, nor spec ev hiz sermon, nor 
incwlr after hiz helfh, nor addres him hi eni 
uther term than that ev hiz cristyan nam, An- 
drta. 8cfh wun had but wun wurd tu sa; net 
even a “heu dia yu dta” wez herd. 8dh wun 





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ssmd tu cordialli and strogli grasp biz band, 
with that wun wurd, dsrer tu ins than eni uth- 
or, jindru , az if in that grasp, and in the ut- 
terans ©v that wan ward, the joind him in a 
band that never shud bs brocen. 

Hwen ws bad wurct ©nr we thru ths pspul, 
ws lszhqili woct around horn. Andria ssmd 
les fatsgd than ecspected. Qfter supper, az 
5 s had several peshents tn vizit, bs rod with 
ms twelv or fiften mllz; and upon ©nr rsturn, 
lis ssmd nun ths wars for biz Sunde’z wurc. 

Dqriq ths wsc, meni incwlrd ©v ms hwl An- 
dru did not arrenj tu prsdh regqlarli at ths 
chapel. The urjd that under biz prsdhig a larj 
coggrsgesfhun wild olwez assembul, and son 
a strog church wad bs formd. Tu this it woz 
rsplld: Andru’z helth iz not suffi^ent. Bs- 
sid, bs baz not complsted biz collej cors.” 

©ccezliunalli dqrig ths summer and ©turn, 
Andre prsdht in ths chapel with lie acseptabil- 
iti. Qfter herig him a fsu tlmz, ths church cold 
him tu bs her pastor. This hs did not ^csept. 
He rsfqzd tu acsept ths col upon tlis groundz 
ov il belth, and a dezlr tu complst biz collej 
cors. But bs woz az dilijent in attenshun tu 
ths interests ov ths church az hs cud hav bin 
bad bs bin her pastor. 

Qbout ths 22nd ©v September bs rsturnd tu 


tbs Yuuiversiti at Luisburg, Pa., tu rszqm biz 
studiz. 

Tbs dhurdh bensforfh dspended upon sup- 
pllz. ©v tbsz, sain wer effWhent ; but tbs 
number ov memberz rsmend fsu, and tbs coq- 
grsges'hun woz spars, and fsbul. Ofen tber 
woz prsdhiq liwen ths coqgrsgesfhuu consisted 
ov onli thrs, for or flv. But, vvs mu vd aloij 
with az ni u dll fortitqd az pessibul, hopiq that 
tbs tun at bwidh Andru wud rsturn tu us woz 
not far distant. With him az pastor, ws felt 
ws wud bs effisfhent and prosperus. 

Upon tbs Gth ov Dssember, 18Gb, bs cam 
with biz wlf* tu vizit ms. Az bs intended tu 
sta until ths first ov Janqeri folloiq, tbs dhurdh 

*Catherin B. Larisun wez born at Cocliecten, Sullivan Ce. r 
N. Y., September 7th, 1839. She iz die doter ev Adaled and 
Bela E. Breun ev Cocliecten Sen ter, N. Y. Until forten yerz. 
old, she attended the district soul ev her nctiv pies ; she tilen 
attended a privet scul, cept hi her cuzin, Mis Meria L. Burjes r 
at liendeut (neu Cirjztun) N, Y , for tu yerz. 

At die ej ev 16 yerz, (Me 1855) she began tu tech a district 
seal in Sullivan Ce., N. Y., and centinqd in this voceshun un- 
til the ©turn ev 1859. In Sept., 1859, she enterd the Qlbani Q- 
cademi, at Ulbani, Ga., then under die prinsipalship ev die Rev. 
J. S. Ingraham, A. M., both az teclier and student — studiiij die 
liier mathematics, French and mipzic. 

Fulli in simpafhi witii the Northern institqsliunz, and repet- 
edli offended bi the cenverseshun ev thoz Suthernerz witii hum 
she deli toct, upen lierig ev the rezults ev tile Battul at Bui 
Run, she and her cuzin, Lilli Burjes, evCipzlun, N. Y., (hu wez. 
with her az a teclier in die academi), rezelvd tu return tu tiler 
homz in tile North. 


arrenjd with him tu prsdh nz ofen az ha end; 
and that, hvv'en hiz helfh wnd net alien him tu 
nrscfh, ha sfhnd emplei sudh minisferz az ha 
edioz tu pi-adh dqrig tha aveniijz and tha flira 


Accordiijli the set eut tu cres thru tils llnz ev tlie Cenfederet 
aimi and tu mec flier we north bl a sirciptus reut that led thru 
Mecen, Atlanta, Chatanaga, Luivil, Ky., Merietta, Clevland, 
Duncirc tu Cochecten Senter, N. Y. ’ On tiler reut the past eut 
ev the Cenfederet linz a short distans frem Clmtanuga. Tlier 
hails wer first rejeist at die sit ev tile CLmerican Flag upen die 
Golt (Gault) Ileus, Luivil, Ky., Juli 1861. 

Az the lieu that cenfederet muni had littul vain eut sid ev die 
Cenfederet linz, die manejd tu cenvert the currensi the had in- 
ti,i gold Tu mec fills az sef az pessibul, ecli sod the muni she 
had ($75.00) in the buzum ev her dres. At Atlanta — under 
the cer ev a frend,— the left tiler baggej tu be forwarded tu 
tiiem bi ecspres az sun az epportvpiili prezented Tlier baggej 
reclit them in G)gust 1861 at an ecspens ev $18.00 for ech tiuijc. 

In Sept., 1861, she began tu tech a. public seal in Mentisello, 
N. Y., athwich she centinipl vvun yer. She then beceni a lech- 
er in the Mentisello Qcademi in liwicli she centini.pl tu tech tu 
yerz. 

In Me, 1864, she wez cold liom tu tec cer ev her sic mu tiler, 
hweratshe remend until she enterd the Yuniversiti Femel Inst i- 
tip, (neu the Bucnel Yuniversiti Institijt) at Luisburg, Pa., Sep- 
tember, 1865. 

At. this Institnshun she graduated in Juli, 1867. Ilaviij bin 
appointed an instructor in this Institipsliun, she tot tile ITier Irp 
glish Branchez and French frem September, 1867, til Juli, 1869. 

October 6th, 1869, she marrid the Rev. Andru B. Larisun, 
M. D. Janice ri 1st, 1870, she began tu tech Iijglish Literatqrand 
French in tile Semineri at Riijgoz. At die detii ev her huzband, 
she beceni a partner with C. W. Larisun in die biznes ev die 
Semineri at Riijgoz, N. J.. — act.ii) stil az teclier ev Iijglish Liter- 
attyr and French, menhwil sriperintendig ol die aflterz ev that 
institqshun, until September, 1874, athwich tim C. W. Larisun 
withdra frem the firm, leviij die seal entirli in her liandz. She 
centinipl tu conduct the Semineri with marct sucses until Sep- 


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Sundez that. occurd dqrig biz ste. He arrivd 
with ths tren at 6 o’clee P. JVJ. Q s no about 
8 indhez dsp bad folen dipii) the de, and * brot 
him tu ml bens in a sIg. Hiz beltb wez febul ; 

tcmber, 1880, liwen she acseptjed the vis-prmsipalsliip ev the Yu 
niversiti Inst,itqt, at Luisburg, Pa. This pozisliun she flld, with 
crec ]it — menhwil techiij the Natural Siensez and die Ilier Math- 
ematics— until the deth ev the Prin si pal, J. L. Junz, A. M., — 
Jan', btli, 1882 — Hem hwich thn, til Jun,.she acted az Prinsipal, 
pro tempore t ev the seal. Her vvurc in this capasiti wez dun with 
such effishensi, dispatch and yuniversal satisfacsliun that the 
Bold ev Trustez, Jun 18fh, 1882, appointed her Prinsipal ev die 
Institipdiun, hwich pozisliun she stil filz. 

Az Prinsipal ev diis Institqsliun and Techer ev Bel-letlerz, 
Ethics and SIceloji, she assipnd her dqtiz September 1882. 

Catherin B. Larisun iz smol ev stater, simmetric in propor- 
sliun, and ev that temperament that we coil Nervo-bilyus Her 
hit iz iiv fet tu incliez, her wet wun hundred and tiv lbs. Cwic 
and decstrus in mosliun, cwic tu persev and redi tu comprehend, 
elastic and endipig in mussul and nerv, she ezili effects liwet 
meni persunzliu ar mor bulci, cud liardli du with gret difficult!. 

Olwez serius, — and yet mirfliful enuffor tile eccezhun. — sedet, 
pensiv and incwirig, her prezens cemmandz respect and digniliz 
eni soshal sircul. Self-respectig and self supportig, she muvz 
in cumpani witlieut burdenig eni wun, or effendig eni bedi. 
The rather, ©1 liu ar with her fel that she eccupiz littul spes, iz 
in no wuii’z we and iz helpful tu ©1. Flgent in cenverseshun, 
versatil in subject matter and velgjiul in spech, she ezili enter 
tenz, editiz and elevets alic the old and the yug, the lernd and 
the illiteret, the grev and the ge, the persun fastidius hi rezun 
ev cultgr and the persun brusc and lecenic hi rezun ev biznes. 
Thus, her prezens iz welcum everihwer, and her inflqens ©lwez 
liolsum. 

Hwil Prinsipal ev the Semineri at Iiiggoz, her lieus wez die 
rezort ev die elet ev the cemmrpiili ; and liwen she left it for tile 
vis prinsipalship at Luisburg, her departgr brot terz ev regret 
tu meni an i, and her absens wez lamented hi ©1. 


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l>ut Its wgz tiz wol az 1)8 had hin in q ] orj tlm. 
©v cors, i ecspected tu lmv a gud tlm hwen 
Andna cem- — J had almost, begun tu hav a 
gud tlm bs for lis am vd— just in the antisipo- 
sihun ov hiz advent. In him, J wud hav a viz- 

Az a. Pastor’ z wit, Catherin B. Larsiun wez siggalarli effish- 
ent, and uncwelifidli acsept.abul tu tile pepul hum her liuzbancl 
servd. She sun becem accwented with ©1 hu attended -the 
church, and her ardent hart bet respensiv tu that ev the most 
zelus, liwll her bizi, effishent hand wez wonnli claspt bl everi 
wurcer in tile cengregesliun. 

Her untirii) enerji in the c©z ev Crist med her ever formost in 
everi gud wurc, liwil her gud sens and jenyal spirit inshurd suc- 
ses liwerever she led. Ever fevurig everi progresiv nmvment, 
and cenli simpafhizig with everi wun — espeshalli witii such az 
neded encurejment, — her vizits wer held hi eveii heusliold, her 
counsel heeled, and her egzampul emrileted, til her nem becem 
a trezlnu and her t'ein heralded bl everibedi. Inded, with a les 
effishent wlf, Andru B. Larisun’z pastoral wud hav bin les bril- 
yant, and hiz efforts les effishent. Prompt in the discharj ev 
everi dipi, ardent in everi sfer ev aeshun, untlrig in everi feld 
ev labor, wetchful ev everi interest, she muvd sid bl sld with 
' her liuzband, and, than lie, she muvd net les brilyantli in ©1 the 
fezez ev that grand carer that med hiz nem so der tu ©1, and 
ther cemblnd aclievments imperishabul. 

In tile Sunde-scul she wez espeshalli effishent — cenductig a 
BIbul clas that wez attended bl meni hu wer memberz ev 
churcliez ev utiier deneminashunz. The ecstent ev the inlhxens 
ev tile wurc dun in this BIbul clas can never be estimated. Its 
rezults ur everihwer stil apperent. The en fliixsiazum enjen- 
derd bl her instrueshun led meni cemparativli illiteret tu a sludi 
ev the scriptqrz that med them intellijent, effishent, and loda- 
bul w'urcerz in both Church and Sunde-scul, and, az sitizenz, 
ecsemplari men and wimen. 

Far femd wez her BIbul clas — and proud wer ©1, liwether 
yug ©r old, tu on that the wer memberz ev it. 


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itoi* that I cud tel hwot I woz duig and hwot I 
wisfht tvi dia, with the sertinti that if ml planz 
wer fezibul the. wud be encirrajd, it tha wer 
net, thar imperfecsfhunz wild 1)8 fragcli and 
farli discust, and sudh sugjestyunz wud bs 
mad az tu mac tiis plan mor wurcabul cm* els 
led tu its abandunment. 

Qfter supper we went over tu dhurdh. Az 
yuzhnal, the odie-ns wez smol. It consisted ev 
hiz wif, Emelin Redig, Sara Servis, ml wlf and 
mlself. He predht, az he olwaz did, a gud, 
sound, gospel sermon* sezund ])ritti vvel with 
Qrmenian dectrin. We lTct it, vahid it az hTli, 
and wer az mudh benefit ted bi it az we wud 
hav bin had 5000 pepul bin prezent. 

The Sunde wez never tu stormi tu prevent its metiij, nor the 
censernz ev lif tu urjent tu hinder its memberz freni a prepare 
shun tu attend. Vizitorz wer nipnerus — tu glen liwet tile cud 
frem tile laijgwej ev tiioz liu resited and frem the wurdz ev her 
liu instructed. And so it liappend tiiat in ol m a tier/ ev Biblic 
interpretesliun, and Biblic literatqr, Mrs. Larisun becem other - 
iti, hardli tu be cwestyund. 

Az a teclier, and guvernor, her efflsliensi iz marvelus. She 
duz her on wurc vvel, and in proper tinrz; and she cozez her 
pqpilz tu striv tu he ecwalli efflshent and ecwalli punctual. 
Net in her wez, industrius in her vocesliunz, frugal in her hab- 
its, simpul in her attir, scrupqjusli ebzervant ev lit, ever red 1 
tu sacritis her on cumfurts, and her on cenvenyensez tu the im- 
pruvment ev utiierz, lernd in tile literatqr, siensez and arts ev 
eur timz, cler in her stetments, cenvinsiq in her arguments, just 
in her critisizumz, cliaritabul toord the opinyunz ev utiierz, she 
stands a paragon that meni a wurthi teclier liaz striven tu e mu- 
let, oltho but feu, if eni, can hop tu ecssei. 


Thp. foil oil] evenig our eotjgregeslh u n woz 
ogmented hi tia solz — S. No nameeer and Jen 
Redig. The folloig nit a feu beiz and girlz ev 
tbs villej cam; and, ol told, the number woz 
about Men. Bl dip necst nit, die fact that 
Andru woz predhig, and that in hiz predhig 
ther woz grot interest tecen b! ol hu herd him, 
had got tu the erz ov meni. The sets in the 
liens wer sun ol occupld; and the continud tu 
be so az log az he livd. 

On Saturds nit die lions woz creuded. Sun- 
de mornig the ceggregesdiun woz veri larj ; 
Sunde nit the sets wer ol fill and meni stud in 
the Hz. The Rev. Samuel Harrisun, Pastor 
ov the Yunlted First Oliurdh ov Amwel, woz 
prezent. Meni wer gretli affected at die predh- 
ig. Gfter servisez, wun Jon Bocerti, a digni- 
teri ev a Yuniterian Churdli, hu had cum tu 
her, az he sed, the yug man predh, cam tu me 
seig: “We ar on die ev ov a grat revival her. 
This predhig stirz the sol eveveri wun hu herz 
it, and the pouer and ernestnes ov that prer J 
hav never herd ecwald, — and it wil be anserd. 
And ther wil be sudh interest tecen in relijun 
her az yu and $ hav never herd ov ; J tel yu, 
nil bruther, the ware haz olredi begun and it 
wil not stop til this hoi communiti iz rouzd 
from the senter tu the sircumferens, and dier 
iz a gret ingadierig ov solz. 


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Dqrig bis fell oil) da, tbs Rev. Samuel Harri- 
sun toct with ms about bis effect ev Andru’z 
prsdhig and tbs appsrans ov fhigz. Hs sed: 
“ That that yug man baz bin cold tu prsdh 
ther iz no mistac. Hiz prsdhig iz a witnes tu 
that fact. N o wun can bsr him without fslig 
that bs iz a messenjer ov God. Grot gud wil 
cum out ov biz prsdhig and S bslsv ws ar non 
in ths bsginnii) ov a grat rsvTval. 5 must at- 
tend tbs mstigz at tbs Baptist bous even nit 
this wsc; J cannot afford tu neglect tu bsr that 
yug man prsdh. Hiz pouer iz seldum scwald ; 
and then in biz prezentashun ov biz biots, bs 
iz entirli orijinal. 

Dgrig tbs wsc, a fsu sot tbs prarz ev ths 
dhurdh, — and rslijun bscam tbs fhsm olmost 
everihwar — ol wonted tu hsr ths yug man 
prsdh; and, tu bsr him prsdh, the cam from 
far and nsr. Tbs wether bscam worm, tlis sno 
melted, ths ground fliod and ths rodz bscam 
muddi and tbs ruts dsp — so much so that trav- 
el ig woz not onli veri laborius but, in ths nit, 
it woz danjerus. But on tha cam, — sum witli 
lanternz best under tlis wagonz, sum with llts 
best upon tbs sidz ov ths wagon, (bis lantern 
with dash attachments, and uther modern im- 
priivments that non mac travelig so szi, bad 
not yet bin invented), sum with a lantern in 
wun band and tbs linz ov ths horsez in tbs 


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uther. But in spit gv ol this provizhun tu ed 
them in travelig, acsidents happend. Wagonz 
wer brocen and horsez and foes injqrd. But 
nun gv thez fhigz deterd the agcsfhus from cum- 
ig tn dhurdh. The Iigus sun pruvd tia smol 
tu hold the foes — even hwen die Ilz and die 
spas about, the pulpit wer did. 

Dqrig this tlni, we projected the establishig 
gv a classic and a slentidc scial at Riggoz. 
Az hiz wlf wgz a tedher, we that that he, widi 
the ad gv hiz wlf, mlt ern a livig at tedhig in 
connecshun widi predhig. So, we enterd intia 
a partnership in the biznes gv a Seminari, pur- 
dliast. a bildig (that wgz then non az the old 
Amwel Qcademi) dtted it up so diat we cud 
begin tu tedh in it on the first Munda in Jan- 
qari, 1870. Bl diis project it wgz shon that 
An dna B. Larisun had cum tu Riggoz tu sta. 
Then foilod grat rejoisig, — espeshalli bl the ceg- 
gregeshun gv the Baptist Churdh and die eog- 
<rre<reshun gv die First Churdh gv Amwel. 

Oltho the dhurdh, hwen she sot hiz servisez 
nz a predher, noig hiz febul lielth, stated that 
she wisht him tu emploi eni ministerz tu ad 
him that he wisht, he continqd tu predh everi 
evenig. 8cwal ernestnes and fors caracterlzd 
edh sermon. The interest increst, mor becam 
awacend, and the pastoral faz gv hiz wurc be- 
cam so tacsig that we grat.li ferd that hiz lieldi 


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and slrerjth wild net, 1)8 adscwet tu tbs ds- 
momdz upon him. The Rev. Samqel Harrisyn 
woz regular in attendans — mudh interested 
and veri cordial tu as. Az Andru had then 
predht everi nit for about thrs wees, S a set Mr. 
Harrisun t u prsdh for wun nit. He stated that 
hs woz wilig tu occupy the, pulpit and that it 
wud giv him gret plezhyr tu do so: but hs 
ewestyund ths propiisti ov duiy *<>. Hs sed : 

cannot tec yur bruther’z plus; and titer iz 
no u ther minister that can. Everi sucsesful 
man haz hiz on peculyar we ov dia i rj. He iz 
so psculyar in hiz ware that J fhiyc eni at- 
tempt tu assist him wil not folio egzactli in hiz 
lln ov ware and wil dia tits coz mor hart than 
gud. Hs izstandii] ths ware wel,and dts Lord 
hia haz cold him tu du it wil streyfhen him in 
everi tlm ©v nsd. Yu-hav natliii] tu fsr; buty 
ws ol hav grot coz tu rsjois.” 

Az dis first wsc in Jansen woz tlis wsc ov 
prey dtpir) hwicfh servisez wer tu bs held in ol 
ths dhurdhez thru out ths land, ws tliot that it 
wild bs best that ther bs predhiy at ths Bap- 
tist heusonli everi second nit. This wud aL 
ford Andru tlm tu rest a littul. Bssldz, hs 
nou began hiz ware az a Tsdher; and tu or- 
ganiz ths scul ov hwidh hs had nou bseum 
Prinsipal, wud rscwlr not a littul ecstra ware. 
Jiat, ther woz no rest for Andru. Mr. Harri- 


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sun vizi ted him and insisted that lie wud cum 
tu biz dhurdh tu prsdh ths nits that -alternated 
with the nits upon hwidh W8 had scrvis. With 
Mr. Harrisun’z rscwest he so far cernplld a z tu 
prsdh for him twls dip ip that wee. 

Ther wer in tlis commipiiti in and around 
Riggoz a gud meni men, from forti-flv tu sev- 
enti-flv yerz old, lua seldum, if ever, went tu 
dhurdh, sum ov hum had not bin tu dhurdh in 
tvventi ysrz the sed. Thsz pspul ©1 Isjit i met 1 i 
belorjd tu Mr. Harrisun’z ceijgrsgesfhun, and 
diirii) the gret conflict hwidh attended and fol- 
lod tii 8 split ov that dhurdh, the tuc sldz with 
it— and yet the had not tecen interest snuf in 
rslijus afferz tu accwlr tiis habit ov attendii) 
dhurdh. Several ov thsz old foes had attended 
ths servis in ths Baptist lions wun nit apparent li 
“just tu hsr flis yur] man prsdh.” The herd 
him — and the never forgot that the herd him. 
Iliz tecst woz: “If 1 wil that he tarri til $ 
cum, hwot iz fliat tu tiis: folio thou ms.” 
Everi wun ov them woz dspli affected, so rnudh 
so that ths furroz med bl tiis tsrz strsmig donn 
ths fes wer vizibul at a distans. 

Mr. Harrisun announst that ths Rev. A. B. 
Larisun wud occqpl hiz pulpit ths folloiij nit. 
Dprii] that nit, and ths folloig de ths tldiijz past 
from mouth tu sr until, az it appsrd, everi mor- 
tal in ths land nsu it. Az bad az wer ths rodz 


and az danjerus az woz ths travelig (he lions 
vvoz ful — sets — Hz and ©1. 

LX i z tecst woz: “Us diat iz not with ms iz 
asrenst ms: and hs that ga there fh not with ms 
scatereth abrod.” 

Ths second nit bs prsdht for Mr. Hamsun 
ths interest depend — til it woz plan that meni 
wer fliiijcig mor ssriusli upon rslijun tlian dm 
had ever diot bsfor. Dqrig ths erli part ov dis 
folloiij wsc several sot dis prarz ov dis dhurdh. 

Mr. Harrisun and dis Elderz ov ths dliurdh 
non wisfhig that everifhig mlt bs dun tu diuroli 
awacen, espesfhalli dis ajed porsfhun ov ths 
coggrsgasfhun, pland that ths Re v. Izrcel 
Poulsun sfliud prsdh wun nit for ths Baptist 
pspul, and that Andru shud occqpl Mr. Har- 
risun’z pulpit dqrig diat nit. Ths plan woz 
annonnst tu us, and Mr. Hamsun strogli urjd 
that Andru sfhnd cempll with hiz rsewest — az 
hs and ths Elderz felt fulli satisfld that grot 
gnd wild folio ths ecsscqslhun ov ths plan. 

Tho Andru woz then prsdh ig everi nit at dis 
Baptits lions, and woz wureig hard dqrig dis 
da at Tsdhig and organlzig ths nq scul, hs 
consented tu accommodat Mr. Harrisun, and 
tu hav dis Rev. Izrael Poulsun tu suppll hiz 
pulpit dqrig hiz absens. On Munda nit, Mr. 
Harrisun announst from hiz pulpit diat ths Rev. 


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A. B. Larisun wild predh from that pulpit on 
the folloii] nit. The report semd tu redh everi 
81 *. The wether woz worm and foggi, and die 
rodz almost impassibul. But so agcsfhus wer 
ol tu her that hwen the t T i ji arrlvd for servisez, 
it woz hardli possibuj for the tu clerjimen, Mr. 
llarrisun and Andru — tu get thru the Hz tu 
the pul pit — so ful woz the lions. Ol wer intent 
tu her. Qmur) the pepul wer thoz old foes hu 
had herd him predh at the Baptist hens and hu 
wer ther so depli affected. Az he red the 3rd 
dhapter ov Revelesliunz and commented flier- 
on, ecseptiij hiz vois, defhllc silens preveld. 
Ol wer intent upon die specer, and u])©n hwot he 
spoc az mu dll so az if the lif ov edli wun de- 
pended upon herig everi wurd tha t woz sed. 

He precht from the tecst : “Behold, 1 stand 
at die dor, and noc : if eni man her ml vois, 
and open the dor, J wil cum in tu him, and 
wil sup with him, and he with me.” “Tu him 
that overcumefh wil 1 grant tu sit with me in 
ml fhron, even az ^ olso overcem, and am set 
doun with ml Father in hiz fhron.” 

“He that hath an er, let him her hwot the 
Spirit sefli until die dhurdhez.” Rev. 3: 20, 
21 , 22 . 

Elocwens and ernestnes hav rerli dun mor 
or sfhon tu better advantcj than on this oc- 


cezhun. Dqrig die sermon the attensdiun, in- 
terest and awecenig inflqens vvez marvelus. 
Hardli a hand, fut or bed nrnvd. But terz 
flod freli — from Tz net yiazd tu wsp, over discs 
log hardend hi contact with the ruffer elements 
ov Ilf, profaniti, induljeng, riotus livig and a 
neglect ov thoz fhigz that alon can refill, en- 
nobul and dignifi. 

Qfter predhig he red the him : 

Ths We Tig SevYUR. 

Behold ! a strenjer’z at die dor! 

Hejentli nocs — haz noct befor; 

Haz we ted log — iz we tig stil ; 

Yu tret no other fi end so il. 

But wil he pruv a frend indsd? 

He wil! — the veri frend yn ned ! 

The Man ov Nazareth! — ’tis he, 

W i tti garments did at Calvari. 

O! luvli attitud ! — he standz 

Witli meltig hart, and leden handz! 

O! matdhles clndnes! — and he sfhoz 

This matdhles clndnes tu hiz foz. 

Admit him, er hiz agger burn — 

Hiz fet departed ne’r return ; 

Admit him, or die our’z at hand 

Hwen at hiz dor denld yu’l stand ! 


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The redig woz dun in that, inimhabul we that, 
wez ol hiz on, and that sent the veri Identical 
emosfhunz ev die sent hu cempozd die him rlt 
tn the veri depths ev the hart, ©v everi wun hu 
herd him red. Then, dqrig the sigig hiz melo- 
dius, enderig, meltig, but peuerful vois, wez 
herd clerli and meltigli ahuv ol utherz hu es- 
sed tn sig. 

Bl recwest ev Mr. LLirrisun he led in prer, 
with an effect that semd tu be mor penerful 
than eni part ev the presedig ecserslzez. 

An invitesdiun wez then given bl the Pas- 
tor diat eni hu dezlrd the prerz ev the dhurdh 
shiul manifest it bl standig up. Seventen 
premptli aroz, ol ev them adults over 35 yerz 
old*. Qmug them wer sics men hu, for yerz, 
had bin censiderd the formost biznes men ev 
this cemmqniti — the yuggest ev hum wez 49 
yerz ev ej, the oldest 72; the remenig for wer 
over 60. 

The prer mstig that fellod the predhig cen- 
tinqd til 1st at lilt. But, nun semd redi tu lev 
the liens. Bt recwest ev the Pastor, Andru 
dismist die ceggregashun bl proneunsig the 
benedicsfhuii. Sum aroz and went horn, but 
meni with the tu clerjimen and elder C. F. 
Fisher, stad til after midnlt, so hard wez it 
for diez old foes tu lev the liens h wer seats 
assembul. In the sem liens, en the felloig nit, 


the effect ev biz predhig wez hardli les effectiv. 
It ssmd that ther wez no vvun hu herd hu wez 
not depli muvd. 

In this coggregasfhun, cenversfhun follod con- 
version until ‘at ths eloz ov ths metigz, sum 
tim in Februari, I thigc, 100 solz wer ressvd 
intu tbs dhurdh bl baptizum, in vvun da. 

Qltho this iz onli a smol part ov tbs rs word 
ov that grat battul that began in tbs feundig 
ov tbs Baptist Chapel al Riggoz, it iz not pos- 
siliul for pen or tug tn stat tbs egzultas'hun it 
brot him and ms. Tbs first veluntsr til this 
littul band bad non not onli bin acnollejd bi 
ol tu bs a grat dhampion in tiis coz ov Crist, 
and bad bin appruvd bl Crist himself, az a 
wurthi wu reman, az sill on In tbs ingatherig ov 
solz; but the liedz ov that, armi that, at first 
bad so bitterli and so vshsmentli oppozd us, 
bad non publieli, not onli announst us az cord- 
ial, and fraternal wurcerz in ths Cristyan coz, 
but bad invited tlis most act iv and tbs most 
effishent soldyer ov tbs littul aggressiv armi 
into thar pulpit — tbs best sit tha end offer — 
tu fit tbs common ensmi ov man. And it so 
plszd Heven that it vvoz then and thar manifest 
that the tu armiz — the older and tbs yugger — 
his larjer and the les — wer engajd in a com- 
mon coz, and that ths commandant ov tbs 
yugger cud and wild wurc wel and appruvigli, 


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lnvenever sircumstansez recwlrd, under the di- 
rec-diunz ov the superior effiser ev die older 
dhurdh. 

Hwen this glorius wurc had advanst til ol 
in the commigiiti for mTlz a round had becum 
areuzd tu the importans ov relijun, die mem- 
berz ov die Circpatric Memorial Churdh began 
a seriz ev metigz hwidh wer wel attended and 
hvvidh wer reworded bi an incres ov member- 
ship ev about 80 solz. 

Hwll the interest in the Yumted First Churdh 
semd olmost Pentecostal, and hwll Andru woz 
zelus tu cep it so, the zel ov the lit tul Baptist 
Churdh, fed, supported and flrd hi Andru’z 
predhig, bi biz unfend devoshun tu the coz ev 
Crist, and bi biz nobul egzampul, burnd stil 
mor ardentli. Everi member becem an ardent 
wurcer, and the indqensez ov the memberz so 
rot upon die mindz ov thoz hu had not yet 
med a profeshun ov relijun tlmt the entlr cog- 
gregesfhun semd tu be agio with fervent relijus 
spirit. 

Olmost everi nit mi wunz asct the prerz ov 
die dhurdh, until dier wer feu in die hoi com- 
mqniti abuv 14 yerz ov ej hu had not bin, bi 
ther on recwest, the espeshal subject ov prer. 
In die Baptist Ileus alon, mor than 150 profest 
Crist. 


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Nor did it matter ov livvet deneininsshun an 
attendant ev tbs Baptist Ileus wez ; -the effect 
wez the sera. Methodists, Prezbiterianz; 
Dugcardz, Yuniterianz, Dutch Reformd alia 
felt at horn in the' Baptist Hens, and feltonurd 
tu hel “the yug man” az the shepherd ev ths 
flee — fefhful, ardent, as vent and tru. 

Denemineshunal distigcshunz cud net 1)8 
mad, end net bs sen, cud net be felt. He 
predht the Gres pel ev Crist tu ol, sboig that the 
Cigdum ev Crist iz within everi belevcr, and 
that Crist rulz ol, luvz ol and ssvz ol. 

On the 3 1st ev Jangeri, 1870, Andru wez. 
cold, hi a yunanimus vot, for the third tlm, tu 
tlie pastoret ev the Baptist Church at Riggoz. 
Hs acsepted the col; and en the 9di ev Feb- 
riaeri felloig, bl a cennsil cenvoct frem die na- 
burig Baptist Churdhez — at Lambert vil, Stec- 
ten, Frendhteun, Baptisteun, Croten, Flemig- 
tun, Wertsvil, Cherrivil and Saudi Ridj, — h& 
wez ordend tu the gespel ministri. 

Dgrig die egzamineshun (and it wez rij id )> 
tu lnvich he wez, subjected bl die ceunsil, it 
apperd that hiz Theeloji wez pritti wel sezund 
with Qrmenianizum, and that he held pecgliar 
veuz respectig Baptizumand die Sacrament ev 
die Lord’z Supper. He wez olwez l're tu stat 
that he dented net that, in the erli histori ev th& 
Churdh, baptizum wez administerd in meni 


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wez — bl emersfhun, b! spriqclig, b! poriq, and— 
that everi candidet sdiud desld for himself, af- 
ter red ip the scriptqrz onli tu hwet mod he 
vvisfht tu be submitted. Hens, with him, ther 
wer no cworrelz about emerslhun. And ►£ hav 
ofen non him hwen profesf beleverz, az candi- 
dots for this ordinans, cam tu him for advls, to 
se tu them: u lied the Scriptqrz : ol that ® no 
about baptizum J got from the Scriptqrz; — 
the. ar plan and szi tu understand, and yu can 
ther lern ol that yu ever can no about a scrip- 
tural baptizum. The doctrinz and fhsoriz ov 
men arverius, mislediij and denjerus, tu se the 
lest. Baptizum iz the dor ov the dhurdh; and 
it matterz mudh les into hwot dhurdh yu go 
than hou vvel satisfid yu ar with the guvern- 
ment ov the dhurdh into liwidh yu go — becoz 
tlie better yu ar satisfid with die government 
ov the dliurdli in hwidh yu ar the mor zelusli and 
the better yu wil wurc. — Baptizum wil sev no 
wun — salvesfhun iz in die gres ov God thru 
fefh in ©nr Iiedemer, die Lord Jezus Crist — 
hum $ am cold tu predh. J am not cold tu 
predh Baptizum — J am cold tu predh Crist; 
and if men ar converted hi ml predhiq, J am 
commisfhund tu baptiz them, upon profesfhun 
ov ther fedi, if the dezlr me tu du so, in die 
nem ov the Father, the Sun and the Holi Gost, 
intu the dhurdh ov hwidh J am a member. 


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This onli iz ml cemmishun and this onli du.” 

He ©lwez held that lie, az a minister ev ths 
Gospel, had no lit tu iiivlt. memberz ev uther 
dhurdhez — h wether Baptist G>r Psdo-Baptist — 
tu partec ev ths cemmqnyun; — that it wez ths 
biznes ov thsdhurdft hwidh hs serv'd tu appoint 
a tun at hwidh ths memberz ev that dhurdh shod 
selsbret ths Lord’z supper, and it wez hiz biz- 
nes tu effishiet at that selsbresfhun ; that ths 
supper iz provided for ths memberz ev that 
dhurdh; that ther iz nufhii) in ths cemmishun 
tu warrant him sther tu invit, or tu ecsclqd^ 
memberz ev uther dhurdhez — h wether thsgests 
wer memberz ev ths dhurdhez ev ths sem feth 
and order, or h wether the wer memberz ev 
Psdo-Baptist dhurdhez; that if memberz ev 
uther dhurdhez bs prezent at a cemmqnyun, 
and partec ev ths bred and win, az nsther hs 
nor ths dhurdh wez med a judj ev ther fit lies, 
nsther hs nor ths dhurdh ev hwidh hs formd a 
part wez injqrd; that if an injqri fellod sudh 
partecig, ths injqri iz upon thoz gests onli hia 
unwurthili partec, sins hwet ths memberz ev 
ths dhurdh had provided for themselvz, and for 
eni hu mlt dhans tu bs with them, wez provid- 
ed in gud feth and accord ig tu ths pattern set 
hi ths tsdhiq ev ths Gespelz. 

Hwll thsz liberal vsuz wer net cendqsiv tu 
incrssig ths number ev nemz upon ths rol ev 


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the dhurdh hue, it woz cendusiv tu hvvot woz 
far mor valgabul, nemli: Tu tbs admishun 
ev sudh onli az vver fiilli persweded in (heron 
mindz that th <2 sfhudjei.ii that dhurdh, and that 
hwen the had jeind it, the sfhud bscum fefhful 
wurcerz in it, ever attentive tu ©1 its interests, 
fefhful tu the disdharj ev everi dijti, mscli, 
prompt li and effisfhehtli. And sudh wer ths 
cvvelitiz, az a rial, that grest tlis memberz that 
formd ths wurcig element in hiz dhurdh and 
stud around him in ol hiz nobul efforts. Sudh 
prseminentli wer ths cwolitiz ev thoz hum hs 
baptlzd into ths dhurdh. 

Andru woz olwez slo tu urj eni wun intu 
a membership ev ths dhurdh hwidh hs servd. 
Hs never fsrd that tiis number upon ths dliurdh 
rol wud bs tu smol. Hs fsrd rather that the 
hu wer unwurthi wud bscum enrold (her, and 
that ths bodi wud bscum cumbersum and 
unwsldi, inert and poizund hi ths ndmishun ov 
thozhu join a dliurdh thru sinister motivz. 

Bsfor hs bscem pastor ov ths dhurdh, hwen 
ther wer perhaps, littul les than a hundred m\ 
converts wetig tu bs baptlzd intu sum dliurdh, 
meni ov hum, die sed, had bin converted un- 
der hiz prsdhig, hs prsdht a sermon from ths 
tecst: “Fsr not littul floe; for it izyur Father’z 
gud plezlnir tu giv yu ths Cigdum.” Lgc xn: 
32., in hwidh hs so clsrli shod hiz Ideaz ev 


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t hs essenslhal cwolitiz ov dhurdh memberz, and 
so forsibli shod tbs denjerz tu a dhurdh hwidh 
admitted memberz hu, in eni we, lact tiis rs- 
cwlrd cwolidceshunz, tiiat meni hu herd him, 
at wuns abandund the noshun ov becumig 
memberz ev the dhurdh hwidh hs servd. Sev- 
eral ov thsz persunz wer men ©v we 1th and in- 
ti pens, and wer gretli disappointed in lernig 
hiz vsnz. The liad bin fhigcig fliat rslijun woz 
a credul in hwidh a pastor sfhud roc diem tn 
rspoz; a soslsti for the promoshun ov respec- 
tabiliti; a clnd ov cloc tn cuver meni infirmi- 
tiz and a multitud ov sinz. And happi woz it 
for ths dhurdh that hs servd that the wer thus 
erli disappointed. For the dhurdhez that the 
joind semd tn bs nether grest In ther member- 
ship, nor a suftishent support or proteeshun 
tu them agenst vis and crim in ths struggul 
for lif. 

Dprig ths wee folloig die Sabbadi mornig on 
hwidh hs prsdht this sermon, several sed tn 
ms: had ecspected tn join die Baptist 

dhureh, but $ ss that yur bruther don’t wont 
ms tu join it. 0v cors, J shal hav tn join sum 
uther dhurdh.” 

►f rsplld: a Did hs tel yu that hs did not wont 
yn tn join ths Baptist Churdh?” 

“No! hs did not tel ms so individpalli ; but 


I herd him j>: scTh that sermon from the Teest: 
“Fer not littul Hoe” That woz snuf for ms; 
and I fhigc it woz snuf for. several utherz. And 
hon hs eespects tu hild up a dhurdh at Riggoz 
with a membersfhip of sudh foes az hs fhiijcs 
dhurdh memberzot tn hs, I don’t no. I tel yu 
Doctor! that wont du — that’s tu stret — yn 
can’t hav enifhig ov a dhurdh ther on sudh 
termz — yu wil never amount tu enifhig az a 
dhurdh in that we.” 

I rsplld: “Then it haz not ©ccurd tu yu, 
yet that ther iz, at Riggoz, a dhurdh — a pouer- 
fnl Baptist Churdh, hilt ov the veil clnd ov stuf 
that yu se can not be found? It haz not oc- 
curd tu yu yet then that ths poner ov that 
“ littul Hoc,” ths Baptist Churdh at Riggoz, 
haz bin and iz stil, so gret that it haz arouzd 
this hoi cemmiputi, for mHz around, tu an in- 
terest in rslijun, ths lie ov hwidh haz never bin 
non her, and haz seldum bin non in eni uther 
pies? — that its wurc haz bin olmost Pents- 
costal? — diat it haz even disturbd ths scwilib- 
rium evyurself, sir? and iz so pm* thatyuyur- 
self ewestyun yur on fitnes tu be enrol d amuij 
its memberz?” 

u Hwi, yes”! hs rsplld, “I no ther iz a Bap- 
tist Churdh at Riggoz, and that it iz a gret 
pouer for gud, and that it haz dun mudh grid; 
but then I don’t ss ths yus ov bsir) so strict 


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in tecig in mi memberz, nor in bsiij so strict 
with ol the mernberz after the hav bin tecen 
in.” 

“Wei, sir,” sed I, “thez mi memberz wil sun 
beeum old wunz, and if die du net becum 
wurcig wunz, the wil be no advantej tu die 
bedi ; and if the pruv indolent, rsmis or we- 
ward, the wil be a hindrans tu sudh az vvisfh 
tn bs effisdient; hens die efficosi ev the dhurdh 
wil be les with them than it wil bs without 
them. So, if the predhig ev that sermon ceps 
y u, or udierz hu fhigc az yu ssm tn, fi*em 
jeinig the dhurdh, it wil hav accomplish the 
veri object that led him tu predh it. It iz a 
veri unplezant difg tu dissiplin a member, a 
veri gTGv thig tu dismis a folti member, but a 
mudh wuks thig tu pas over the remisnes ov 
memberz that dezerv the sensfhur ev the dhui;ch. 
So, tu prevent dilemmaz, it iz best tu cep ol 
sudh az ar Hell tu mac trubul if admitted, from 
yunltig with die bodi.” 

Thez veuz wer avers tu a rapid incres tu die 
dhurdh. Hwll mor than a hundred and fi ft i 
sot the prarz ev die Baptist Churdh, onli about 
fifti wun y united with it. Ov thoz hu went 
elshwar, sum yunlted with neburig Baptist 
Churdhez, sum with die Dugcard Churdh. but 
the most ov them, with the tu Prezbiterian 
Churdhez nerest bl. 


30.3 


Az a Pastor, Andru attended wel tu the in- 
terests ev hiz (ioe, strictli upon Gospel prinsi- 
pulz. In hiz estimeslhun, the Gospel woz suf- 
fisfhent tu redh and tu redem ol, and tu uphold 
the most abject; — tu lift ol abuv vis and crlm 
and tu' h listen them upon that horizon upon 
hwidh ol ar guvernd hi that lo hwidh in inflip 
ensig him woz ol-pouerful — “The luv ov Crist 
constreneth usd’ Hens he olwez predht Crist, 
and from hiz pulpit, no wun ever herd him 
precfh eni izum, or alliid tu eni cred. 

Wuns ther woz a clnd ov Tempera ns Asso- 
sdiieslhun ov the ministerz ov the verius dhurdh- 
ez ov Hunterdun Counti. The Minister ©v 
everi dhurdh, (ecsept the Baptist Churdh at 
Riggoz), I fhigc, woz a member ov this As- 
sosfhiesdiun. At wun ov ther metigz, the de- 
sided tu secqr the predhig ov a sermun upon 
“Tempera ns” in everi metig-hous in the counti. 
Az Andru did not met with them, the appoint- 
ed a cemmitte tu vizit him, tu get him tu so 
far co©i>eret with them az tu predh a “Tem- 
perans Sermun” in the Baptist Chapel at Rig- 
goz in the rnornig, and in the Baptist Churdh 
at Wertsvil (then without a Pastor) in the 
evenig. The committe consisted ©v the Pev. 
E. A. Wudz ©v the Flemigtun Baptist Churdh, 
the Rev. I. Poulsun ov the Dugcard Churdh, 
and the Rev. S. Harrisun ov the Yunlted First 


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Churdh ©v Amwel. I woz tocig with Andra 
hwen the enterd hiz parlor. Az I aroz tu go, 
the dharman ©v the committe sed: “Doctor! 
W8 wont yu her; we no yu hav ever bin zelus 
in die coz ©v temperans, and we wont yn tu 
her hw©t we hav tu se.” 

The, at wans, stated ther biznes, and asct. 
for a reopens. Andra replld: Then yu wont 
me tu predh Temperans! ©n that de, Du vu? 
Hwi! ^ olwez predh Temperans! Du I n©t? — 
Tu this the replld: Yes, yu olwez predh Tem- 
perans; but we wont yu,en that de, tu predh a 
set sermun agenst the yus ©v alcohol az a bev- 
erej. Tu this he replld: But ^ woz n©t cold 
tu j>redh alcohol — its yus or its a bps — I woz 
eold tu predh Crist; — ml tlm iz tu predh us and 
ml opportunity tu feu, tu luz a siggul ©cca- 
zhun tu predh the Gespel ©v Crist tu humso- 
ever wil her me. And then, hw! stiud I cwit 
ml colig tu du the ware be 1 ©gig tu thoz ©v an- 
uther profesfhun. Ther iz ml brufher, the Dec- 
tor. He iz verst in alcohol, its yus and its a- 
bgs; and then he can spec ©fhoriteti vli. It iz 
hiz colig tu du so — -just az it iz ml colir) tu 
predh Crist. 

The Ilf infqzd intu the dhurdh bl Andru’z 
predhig never becem letharjic az log az he livd. 
The sem zel and ardor centinud until alter hiz 
deth. Conversfhunz wer constant dqrig ol the 


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munfhs ev the yer; hiz ceggregasfhunz wer ol- 
waz laij; empti sets in the lions in hwidh he 
prsdht wer net sen; and centensfhunz and dis- 
sensfhunz amuij memberz end net egzist, — so 
intent wer ol en the wun grand purpus. Tu 
her hiz pepul toe, the last sermun that the had 
herd him predh, wez the best; and eni seem 
that he projected wez mor wurthi than eni wun 
that he had submitted befor; and everi mem- 
ber semd tu stnv tu se hu cud be die most ef- 
fisfhent wurcer in the coz ev Crist. 

He continue! tu predh until the effort ev get- 
tig from hiz heus tu the dhurdh wez alarmig. 
The last Sunda that he stud up befor hiz pe- 
pul (Ogust 11th, 1872,) tia ev the Decenz car- 
rid him from thecarrij tu die pulpit. Netwith- 
standig this febul cendisfhun, hwen the Himz 
wer sug, hiz veis wez herd, cler, plantiv, melo- 
dius and swasiv. 

At hiz funeral, hwidh eccurd en the 27th ev 
September, thei* wez a grat cegcors ev pepul — 
it iz sed the larjest that ever attended a funer- 
al in die villaj ev Riggoz, or in its visiniti. 
Ministerz ev ol dhurdhez, ev ol deneminasfhunz, 
cam tu pa tu hiz memori thar last selem re- 
spects. The funeral sermun wez predht from 
Luc, 12th dhapter, 42nd and 43d versez, bl 
the Rev. Charlz Vug, Pastor ev the Baptist 


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Churdh at Cherrivil, N. J., a buzum frend ev 
the dsssst. 

Ths yulojiz rsspectig hiz earacter, wurc and 
wurfh, pronennst after ths sermun, hi. ths meni 
ev hiz naburig Pastorz wer lag, fervent, and 
hi. Hiz defh, tho leg respected, fel lie a pol 
an ths entlr cemmgniti in liwidh hs livd; and 
it gratli affected meni hu livd far awe. 

5 wez with him ssslesli dgrig hiz last daz and 
closli wedht him thru hiz dlig moments. I Is 
wez entlrli cempozd, and wedht ths dhenjez 
that hs underwent with ths culest filesofi. 
Dgrig ths last sics eurz ev hiz Ilf, hiz stregth 
fa Id veri svenli — so that toord ths cloz ev ths 
sem, hs ssmd sumtlmz tu ewestyun h wether 
hs wez yet amug ths livig. Hs dszird tu bs 
alon with ms ditrig hiz last moments; soolec- 
septig mlself and him, left ths rum. Occazh- 
unalli hs wud spsc tn ms and asc ms lieu leg 
J fhot hs wud bs in hiz dspartgr. Hs ssmd 
nsther tu fsr ths cloz nor dszlr that ths end 
sftiud cum eni mor spsdili; but hs ssmd intent 
en marcig censfhusli, ecspsriensig and rsalizig 
everi step frem 1 If thru that transizhun, hwidh 
ws col deth, intu Sterniti. Wuns hs sed tu 
ms, in an incwlrig veis, Dector ! — J rsplld : 
Hwet sfhal 5 du for yu, Andru? Hs rsplld: 
Heu leg yet wil it bs? S can’t ss eni mor — J 


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liav net sen yu for an our ! But lieu gud it iz 
that ws can lieu be alon tugether! 

I replid: We ol lmv tu suffer this transizh- 
un, Andru! and I am glad that I can be with 
yu, and, with yu, can wedh the dhanjez until 
the last. And it seraz tn me that it iz wel for 
us if we can be censfhus hwll we areffectig this 
transizhun, and can be abul tn obzerv the 
dhanjez we undergo az we ar pasir) from lTf 
thru that dare valli we col' deth intu the relmz 
ov Ilf! It me net be so with me! 

In hiz last efforts tu mac himself sertin 
h wether he vvezyet aliv, he sed in a febul veis: 
Doctor! — I replid : II wet sthal I du for yu, An- 
dru? He replid: Am I yet aliv? — Q feu 
secendz had elapst hwen, in a firm vois, he sed: 
Doctor! we ar alon! and yet we ar not a- 
] on t — Thez wer hiz last wurdz. In a feu sec- 
endz he wez ded. 

The estimasihun in hwidh Andru woz held 
bi the cemmuniti at larj, apperd in sum degre, 
in the ecspreslhun mad bi thoz ho gatherd at 
hiz heus at the sezun ov a donashun mad him 
bi the memberz ov hiz dhurdh and the sitizenz 
ov the cemmuniti. The cegcors ov pepul wez 
l a ij — B0 that the heus in hwidh he livd (the 
Seminari Bildiij), tho larj, woz fild until ther 
woz hardli standii) rum. Everi denominashun 


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within the settulment woz reprezented, and ov 
ther msnz the gev freli. Dgrig the evenig, a 
purs contenig ffire hundred and eleven dellarz 
w©z prezented tn him; besldz this the brot him 
hwetever the that cud be gv yus tu him, or 
cud in eni we sfho the regard the had for him. 

Az a Tedher, Andria wgz sucsesful ; and az 
a dissiplinerian he wgz ecsellent. Under hiz 
manejment, the Semineri sun wun a repgte- 
sfhun for strictnes gv dissiplin, fhurones in in- 
strucslhun, and elevesffiun gv em in Ilf. Hiz 
pupilz, oltho the ferd him az 1 hav seldum sen 
pupilz fer a tedher, inveriabli respected him 
and luvd him; and hwen wuns under hiz dis- 
siplin, the sun becem so closli wedded tu him 
and hiz interests that it semd that nuthig but 
deth cud separet them frem him. At hiz fg- 
neral, hiz pupilz mornd hiz Igs net les than hiz 
nerest relativz. 

Hwen hiz remenz wer plest in the grev, and 
hiz relativz and the stgdents gv the Semineri 
over hwidh he had prezlded, had luct for the 
last tim upon the coffin that incest hiz remenz 
and the clerjiman, after a feu wurdz fittig tu 
the occezhun, had invoct the blesig gv God 
upon thoz berevd, the pupilz, steppig bac from 
the grev, hwTl the secstun wgz filig it with dirt, 
sag the Him — 


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Nsrer tu God. 


Nerer mi God, tu The, 

N erer tu The ! 

S’n tho it be a cres 
That razefh me; 

Stil ol mi seg sfhal be, 

Y erer, ml Ged, tu the, 

Y erer tu the! 

Tho, lie a wanderer, 

The sun gen deun, 

Darcnes cumz over me, 

Mi rest a ston, 

Yet in mi dremz I’d be 
N erer, mi Ged, tu the, 

Nerer tu the ! 

Thar let mi wa apper 
Steps untia heven; 

G1 lhat then sendest me 
In mersi given; 

Aggelz tu becun me 
BTerer, mi Ged, tu the, 

Merer tu the! 

The had so often herd him si g this Him in 
that effectiv, pathetic stran that wez ol hiz on, 
an<^ that so fulli exprest the caracter ev the 
man. Tha sag hwet then wez in thar harts— 


and liwet ths lieu wez ol waz topmost in hiz 
hart, and tha sag with sudh denies, selemniti, 
and sudh felig that it prodqst a lastig impresfh- 
un upon ©1 hu herd. 

Sicsten yerz and sics munfhs after hiz defh, 
an eccazhun brot tu ml liens sumfhig mor than 
a hundred foes, meni ev lnam yuzd tn se him 
frscwentli with ins, Gmui] them wer several 
hu wer students at the Semineri prior tn, or 
at the tim ev, hiz defh. The had non gron net 
onli into manhnd, hut intid middul lit. The 
carz ev biznes had mad them forgetful ev 
meni fhigz that wer a part ev ther affarz hwll 
at the Seminari; and perhaps nufhiij cud mec 
them recol them. But, dgrig the evenig, az 
the wer venig sum objects upon the wol, az 
tha past the so a fotograf ev a griap in hwidh 
wez And rid. Az J sat ner the eppozit sid ev 
the rum ^ cud ezili se the effect. At wuns tha 
pozd. For sum moments ther wez profound 
silens. But sun the sllens wez brocen bi wun 
ev diem, hu apparentli, uncensfhusli,in a cler, 
plantiv, swasiv, enderig veis, began tu sig : 

“Nerer mi Ged tu The!” 

Hardli had the first wurd escapt hiz me.ufh, 
hwen ol jeind and sag die entlr Him, with an 
effect that told heu depli hiz caracter had im- 
prest them, and heu lastig wez the effect ev 


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that Him hwidh so fulli ecsprest the caracter 
ov ther tsdher. 

Hwll the wer sigig, ther sat nsr ms an elder- 
li wuman hu, oltho sfhs livd 20 mHz awe, yiizd 
tu ss him occezhunalli, and hu attended hiz 
funeral. 1 notist that the tsrz wer floig frsli 
doun her dhscs, az the wer deun the dhscs ov 
meni utherz hi.i herd the sog. Turnig toord 
ms, sfhs sed: “1 herd yu and ths students sig 
that Him at Andru’z grev, and ther ths effect 
woz w underfill. It ssmd that ws wer at ths 
veri gets ov Heven, and implorig entrans. — I 
hav never got over it — and I no I never wil. 
And nou thsz sem voisez sig it hsr tu-nTt! 
Hon solem it ssmz! It ssmz lie beriig that 
gud man agen. Hou gnd it iz tu fhigc ov 
him. It brigz tu our memori sudh a pur, sudh 
a nobul caracter, and so meni ov hiz gud 
wurcs. Ids woz truli a gret and a gud man.” 


CHAPTER XII. 

seRa LaviNa larisun. 


Sera Lavlna Laris an woz born October 
10th, 1844. Shs iz a wel proporsfhund wuman, 


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abuv the averej in hit — haz lit scin, lit her and 
lit eys. 

Ctrnui) her accwentansez, Sera wez non for 
her redi wit, cwic reports, harti joes, and pert 
anecdots. Shs wez ful ev fun. Shs sag web 
and semd tu never tir at sigig. Her veis — a 
elsr soprano — wez streg, fleesibul and wel med- 
gleted, ether in sigig or in spscig. Shs artic- 
gleted her wurdz wel, and in sigig a him shs 
wez veri sucsesful. Shs haz ever bin rsgard- 
ed industrius tu a folt; and if the dez wer 
twenti fiv eurs leg, shs wud wont (hern an enr 
legger. 

Shs wez baptizd into ths Baptist Churdh at 
Saudi Rij, Jangeri 15th, 1860. Shs marrid 
Samgel Redig Bodin, Dssembei* 11th, 1872. 
Frem this ynnyun ther ar tia doterz, Mei*i H. 
Bodin, born Febriaeri 17th, 1874; and Liasi 
Me Bodin, born Februeri 26th, 1876. 

Mr. Bodin iz an agricolist. Hs neu livz en 
ths preperti formerli ond bi hiz grandfather, 
Benjamin Bodin. This preperti iz upen ths 
north sid ev ths rod that ecstendz frem Stectun 
tu Serjentsvil, eppozit ths sit at hwicfh ths rod 
ecstendig tu Saudi Rij jeinz ths sed rod. 


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CHAPTER XIIL 

JON DR8MER LARISUN. 

Jon D. Laris un woz born Desember 12th, 
1846. He marrid Dilli C. Bodln, doter ev 
Wilyam Bodln, Desember 11th, 1872. 

Lie hiz father, Jon haz olwaz tacen the lest 
possibul interest in politics. Tu attend strict- 
li tu hiz on biznes, and tu az strictli lev die 
biznes ov utherz alon, iz caracteristic ov the 
man. Redi tu wat upon a nabur in tlm ov 
ned, tu render assistans tu thoz in wont, tu 
contribut tu everi wurthi enterprlz, tu encur- 
aj the febul and the despondent, tu act hiz 
part promptli, effisfhentli and cherfulli ; and co- 
sfhus in waig matterz and in formig an opinyun, 
he iz gratli respected b! hiz neburz, and iz jen- 
eralli regarded a wlz counselor and a trust- 
wurthi sitizen. 

elon iz an agricolist. He olso tacs mudh 
interest in cattul, sfhep and swin. In fact, a- 
map brederz ov stoc, he haz a gud repittasdiun 
for secip-ig die best diat the cuntri prodnsez. 

He haz olwaz livd on the farm on hwidh he 
woz born and rerd — wuns ond bl Andria Lar- 
isun hu sold it tu hiz sun Benjamin. 

He woz baptizd intii tiie Baptist Churdh at 
Saudi Rij 1869. 


Hiz children ar: Andru B., born October 
15th, 1873; Wilyam B., born Jangari 6th, 
1878; Anna M., born October 17th, 1881; 
Carman W., born September 10th, 1884. 


CHAPTER XIV. 

HANNO ELLEN LARISUN. 

Hanna Ellen Larisun wgz born Mardh 17th, 
1849. She woz baptlzd intu ths Baptist 
Churdh at Sandi Rij, Qpril 3rd, 1862. In ths 
welfar gv this dhurdh, slhs haz olwez bin dspli 
interested. Indsd, in ol fhigz rslatig tu rslij- 
un. sfhs iz dspli interested. 

Ellen iz a steutli bilt wuman, sturdi, dssid- 
ed and oblljig. In meni waz, shs inudh rszem- 
bulz her muther. Shs iz ever redi tu do a 
clndnes tu eni mortal. 

Frs from friveliti, and alert tu ol that can 
impruv mortalz and mec them mor happi and 
mor yusful, her critisizumz ar ths csnest, and 
her ebzervashunz ths fulest ev wizdum, and 
ev wornig ad vis. II wll slhs cwicli dstects ths 
folts in ths campozishun gv thoz 4hs msts, if 
tha hav gud cwGlitiz, sfhs az cwicli ssz them, 
and unhezitetigli givz ths persun ful credit for 


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them. She iz olwaz les given tu senzhur pe- 
pul for thar folts than she iz tu praz them for 
thar virtuz. 

Ellen haz grat muscular strep fh. Lie her 
muther, hwet iz entlrli impossibul tu be ac- 
complish!, bl muscular strepfh, bl most wim- 
en, iz ezili effected bl Ellen. 


CHAPTER XV , ; 

CORNeLia JUN LARISUN. 

Cornelia Jan Laris un woz born November 
6th, 1852. She woz baptizd into the Baptist 
Churdh at Saudi Rij, March 28th, 1869. 

From infansi, she had a febul fizec. Q ten- 
dansi tu tuberculosis woz erli evinst, and at 
the aj ov 16 yerz, we ferd gratli that her Ilf 
woz ner its cloz. But, under hljienic influens- 
ez, a judishus diet, a scilfnl y us ov medisinz 
and the constant ecsersizip ov commun sens — 
that rarest ov ol the cwolitiz ov mortdlz — she 
haz enjoid much ov the gudnes, buti, eufoni 
and plezhurz insident tu die most consistant 
mortalz ; and she haz bin a veri yusful mem- 
ber ov sosleti. 


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She haz olwez bin fend ev hues; and she 
cwicli noz it, if the centen wit oryumur. In- 
ded the funni sld ev fhigz iz cwicli sen bl Jen; 
and the hia dred tn hav ther cwelitiz erd bl a 
humorist, after ther first ecsperiens in vijig 
themselvz illgmineted bl die lit that her lamp 
can be. mad tn shed open them, hwen in a cum- 
pani ev hwidh she formz a part, esp pritti wel 
within ths benndz ev proprlsti, — cwlet lie, and 
a littul rszervd. 

Handi, cwlet, simpafhetic and dherful, she 
iz an ecsellent nurs in sicnes. Her enfenic 
veis, jentul manner, redi wit, and redi hand, 
mec her a jem.in a rum hwar die. sic ar; — a 
help that iz efen mor promotiy ev helfh than 
ths fizishan; — a bam, mor suthig than peppi or 
mandragora ; — a stinuilent mor invigoretig 
than alcohel, valerian or avena; — a hipnetic 
mor potent than morfia, cloral or sulfonel. 

She haz olwez evinst mudh scil in ths mor 
delicet ware reletig tu henscepig ; and ^he iz 
net slac in several fsldz ev ths Fin Qrts. 


CHAPTER XVI. 

LaViNCL AN LARISUN, DOTER 9V ANDRL1 LARISUN. 

Lavlna An Larisun, yurjgest doter ov An- 
dru, wbz bom Ms 11th, 1811. She wez a he- 
vi set wuman, with meni gv ths trats peculiar 
tu ths Larisun famili, — witti, ever in a gnd 
yiamur, had grat endqrans, wgz veri clever, 
llct fun, enjoid a gnd, harti laf, — wgz fond gv 
dhildren, a gnd nabur, and conducted ol her 
affarz with dq regard tu ths rits and fsliqz gv 
utherz. 

Her her wgz ©burn in hq and cwlt curb. 
Her spin wgz liwlt, and thicb set with freculz — 
a pscqliariti gv ths Larisunz. Ol diigz con- 
siderd, Ihs trats gv the old Larisunz appsrd 
mor boldli in Lavina than in eni ubier dhild 
gv Andru Larisun’z famili. 

LavTna marrid Samqel R. Holcum, Septem- 
ber 12tlq 1834. Prom this marrij isThsThiad 
Sara Jan, Mari C. and Andru Larisun. 


Sara Jan Holcum wgz born Tqzda, J un 30th, 
1835. Shs marrid Chari z M. Strlcer, Mardh 
21st, 1855, bl hum sfhs had Margaret, Lavina 
and Samqel. 


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Mari C. Holcum woz horn Minnie, Novem- 
ber 25th, 1839. She marrid Samttel Scilman, 
October 18th, 1859, hu did ov consumpsliun, 
October 29th, 1860. 

Upon the 24th gv September, 1874, sfhe mar- 
rid Jorj Agnu, bi hum ^he haz had Remend 
H., Robert, Josefen, and Oliv. 

Mr. Agnu livz at Tltusvil, N. J., and iz the 
proprietor gv the Hg urii^ mil at that pies. 


Andru Larisun Holcum wgz born upon the 
11th gv Desember, 1841. He marrid Osa Gar- 
rison Wert, doter gv Spenser S. and Sera 
Garrison Wert, November 12th, 1863, bi hum 
he haz had Sera Garrison, (born Me 12th, 
1865); Tomas Jeffersun, (born Qgust 29th, 
1867; did Jun 17th, 1875); Sera Wert, (born 
Ogust 3rd, 1869; did Jail 31st, 1875); Lavl- 
na An, (born Februeri 24th, 1872); Andru 
Larisun, (born Jull 20th, 1873; did (Ogust 
29th, 1875); Meri Scilman, (born September 
3rd, 1874); and Osa Roberts, (born Septem- 
ber 2nd, 1878). 

Osa Garrison Wert, doter gv Spenser S. 
and Sera Garrison Wert woz born Desember 
2nd, 1841. 


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APPEND ICS A. 

CHAPTER L 

THS OLDER LARISUNZ. 


Qmug the older Larisimz, ther iz a tradi- 
sliun that Jarnz Larason, the projenitor ev our 
hrandh ov the Larisun Famili, in Neii Jerzi, 
W9Z a sun ev wun Jon Larason, a Ilanisli no- 
hulman, hu, dgrig the wor betwen the cig and 
the nobulz, in 1665, tied hiz cuntri and sot i ef- 
gj, at first, in Scotland, then in iErland, then 
in Qmerica. The stori iz told that hiz proper- 
ti woz confiscated and that he, in disglz, mad 
hiz wa. from the Danish set ov guvernment, 
tu the se; that he landed in Scotland, and dwelt 
am up die Scots until die Danish guvernment 
“set. a prls upon hiz lied,” and until he lernd 
dier vver ngmerus persunz in pursuit ov him, 
tu secpr die reword offerd hi the Danisli cig. 
He then lied tn Jrland; but sun he found that 
hiz persun woz insecgr amug the Irisfh. Az 
the wlldzov Qmerica offerd him a better dhans 


tu el ud thoz hu pursqd him, he embarct for 
the mi cuntri and landed upon Lor) Pand. 

U|) 9 ii tiiis Iland, he purdhast a larj tract gv 
land and upon it dwelt. 

The dat ov hiz arrival in Qmerica cannot be 
definitli Host ; but it iz rezunabul tu infer diat 
he settuld thar prior tu 1675. 

Tradisfhun inform/ us that Jon Larason, die 
Den, woz a veri athletic and a veri scolarli 
man; that he brot up hiz dhildren tu lernig, tu 
the athletic sports and tu industri; diat die 
eondisJhun under hwidh he cam tu this cuntri 
mad it important tu him tu led a secluded, 
cwlet lif and tu cep himself and hiz famili, az 
rnudh az possibul, in obscqriti. 

Perhaps die sain coz, mor than eni uther, led 
tu a dhanj ov hiz 11 am. Qmug the Danz, ttie 
liam ov die famili from hwidli he desended iz 
non az Larsen. The desendants ov Jon — and 
perhaps Jon tu — erli began tu lit, the nam in 
sudh a wa az tu consel its Danisfh pecqliariti. 
Az the suttics 4 son’ iz pecqliarli Igglisdi, so the 
terminasihun sen iz pecqliarli Danislh or Aors; 
liens we se Jensen, Kemsen, Knudsen, Ac., 
Ac., namz ov persunz latli ariivd from I)en- 
. marc. The lris!h lit Larason, and so it iz rit- 
ten in most ©v die dedz and wilz. f hav anid 
tu lit edh Larisun’z nam az he rot it. 


Pepul hi the nem Larsen ar nan veri mi- 
rnerus in Shicago, and in the vvestiM-n territoriz. 
G Baptist clerjiman lna non livz in the north- 
ern part ov Denmarc, informd Dr. J orj H. Lar- 
isun,* a feu yerz ago, that, in vvun ev the conn- 

* For the tradishunal account, ev tils erlier Larisunz, 3? am 
gretli indeted tu mi bruther, Dr. Jorj H. Larisun, ev Lambert* 
vil, N. .T. For meni yerz, be lmzbin engejd in incwirig intu the 
histori ev the Larisunz liu first, settuld in america. He baz cer- 
respended with ©lmost, ifindsd, net cwlt, everi persun, hi the 
neni ev Larisun. ev bum be cud lern ; and with meni utherz bu 
oltho die ar brancbez ev the famili, liav, bi marrij, lest the Lar- 
isun nem. Nor baz be bin content tu lern ev the Larisunz onli. 
Hiz dillijens in incwirig ev ol bu neu ev the older Larisunz iz, 
* fhigc, unpresedented, and the rezults ar marvelus. 

Az a rezult ev this indefatigabl wurc, a’n aocqmqlesbun ev 
peperz, from reliabul sorsez, bavbin tild and prezervd that wud 
astonish eni ecsept thoz accwented with the rezults ev the most 
assidqus cellectorz ev liistori, anticweri, and cindred brancbez 
ev Ort. and Siens. 

Tu the valqabul documents ev this vast accqmqlesbun, be 
baz net onli efFerd me fre acses ; but, in cempiliq the matter for 
diis Appendics, be baz eded me in glenii) from them such facts 
az hav bin fhot the most wurthi ev censideresbun Hens, J am 
and ol bu glen from thez pejez ar, gretli indeted tu the assidq- 
us industri ev Jorj H. Larisun. 

It iz steted upon pej 11, in the prefas tu diis buc, that Jorj H. 
Larisun baz furnisht much ev the material that formz Appen- 
dics A ev this velqm. Sins rit.ii) that prefas, mor dian thre yerz 
hav elapst. Dqrii) thez dire blzi yerz meni facts bav bin ecs 
liquid frem the ruinz ev the last sentqri ; and meni ev the tra- 
disbunal stetments that we wuns belevd tu be tru. we neu no tu 
be foils . Inded. under the lit that neu illqminets the facts relativ 
tu eur famili, we se fhigz so different frem that th« wuns apperd 
tu be that we bav fhot it proper tu rent the entir Appendics so 
that it me neu embedi the entir product ev the accqmqlesbunz 
at eur dispozal tu-de. 


tiz 9 v Domnaic, ther ar, at the lest., fi0,000 
persunz hi the nem ov Larsen. 

Tradisfhun sez that Jon, the Dan, had sics 
sunz, ov hum tia vvercild b! the Indianz. him 
remanig for, Rojer, Jemz, Wilyam and Jon 
bscem the permits ov the Lmasonz in Qmeri- 
ca. 

Rojer settuld in Pensilyenia. Ov hiz proj- 
eni, if he had eni, ^ am not informd. Jemz 
settuld upon a tract* ov *243 ecerz, hwidh scirts 

* The tract tu liwicli referens iz her med liz upon the norfti- 
est sid ev Stoni Bruc, in the teunsliip ev Hopwel, Merser 
Ceunti, N. .T., abeut a mil and a liaf southwest. ev die villej. 
Hopwel. G part ev it iz neu ond l)i, and eccupid hi, Mr. Halt 
Ege, hwz grandfather Samite 1 Ege, in 1801, pure hast die entir 
tract and settuld upon it. Subsecwentli, it becem die preperti 
ev hiz sun Jen Ege ; then it bscem die prepeiti ev hiz sun An 
dru Ege, frem hum it desended tu hiz sun Ralf Ege the persun 
abuv nemd, az its prezent oner. liens, it haz bin in the Ege. 
famili, a period ev ninti yet z. 

i wud du violens tu mi censepshunz evenor, gratified, and hi 
anfliropi, and tu that trenig that % t esevd at die handz ev mi per- 
ents, shud i pas farther without a feu fre.fragc, unfend cem- 
ments upen tlie intrinsic wurfh, the si user, inherent respect, and 
prezervativ spirit ev thoz hu liav so leg held die clemz for tliis 
preperti. Espeshalli wud If du violens tu ml sens ev dqti shud 
i net pe, at the lest, a pasig tribi^t tu the liespitahul spirit ev mi 
accwentans, Mr. Ralf Ege, buz intellijent facultiz, aflabul wgz, 
and benevolent dispozishun so sun. win die respect ev die wur- 
dii and commend him tu ©1 az an unfend tilanthropist. 

The car tu prezerv everi old relic, implement, yutensil ev 
handiwurc ev the old Larisunzthat iz wurthi ev prezerveshun 
haz ever bin such az iz rarely sen enihwer. The sit ev everi 
old spot around liwicli interest cligz iz ezili and ewicli pointed 
out tu this do. Tlieenshent berriig-greund, net the senler ev 


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the left b;iijc ev Sloni Bruc in the teunsfhip ev 
Hop web in the count i ev Merser, stet ev Neu 
Jerzi. Wilyam and Jen settuld ner tbs Blac 
River, in Morris Ceuuti, Neu Jerzi. 

Sudh iz the tradisfhunal account ev the Lari - 
sun famili hia erli settuld in Qmerica. Sins 
dhlldhud, i hnv bin bizi, az lezluir alleud, in e^z- 
aminir] hwetever mil centen facts that cud be, 
in eni we, yuzd tu illriminet this, tu me, ol- 
misterius subject. Q lit devoted, tu lerniipmd 
bucs, a vocesdiun that haz cempeld me tu red 
ecstensivli, verius clnds ev literatip- that hav 
t smd with facts respect ig the erli settulment 
ev eur stet, biznes that haz med me cempara- 
tivli familyar with q 1 tlie steps in the settul- 

the old homsted, in liwicli tlis older Larisunz and the older 
Paresez menli berrid. iz treted with dq respect, and everithig in 
and abeut it iz prezervd with strictnes and assidg,iti 

Thru sum mishap, sum yerz ago, the grev ston ev Acssa Lar- 
ason Humfri wez brocen. But tu this da, everi fragment ev the 
ston liz, in pies, upen her grev, and the inscripsliun theren, 
hwicli iz velgminus for the thnz, can be red, with ez. Lie cer 
i/ bestod in tile prezervesliun ev everi utlier monument upen this 
enshent spet, liwicli, had it bin in the middul ev the farm ev 
meni anuther man, leg sins wud hav bin subject tu the tilerz 
pleu, and neu cempletli obliterated. The dispozishun tu respect 
the grevz ev the ded iz a part ev a hi spirit ; and, oltho a cem- 
mendabul element in the trots ev eni sitizen, it iz feund onli in 
the best ev men. 

If fine be purdund for thus particqjarizig, f wish tu stet a 
sircumstans that f espesholli admir. Q recastig ev the feldz ev 
Mr. Ralf Ege’z farm, cozd a leg lin ev ng, post fens tu be med. 
Qbeut midwe ev the lin in this leg ecstens evfensiz the enshent 


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merit and in ths dsvelo|)ment ev K J., and 
with ths public recordz ov ourstat from ths el- 
dest timz, haz afforded me meni an opportun- 
ity tu discus this iuterestig problem. NatgraHi 
sceptic rsspectig eni subject, espesfhalli histor- 
ic, that duz not rest upon record, ther haz ol- 
wez liggerd, in ml mind, douts az tu die valid- 
iti ov this tradisdnm. Thez douts hav olwez 
bin the strogger, becoz ml Grandfather, hia 
semd tu me tu lie a siclopedia ev facts relctig 
tu the erli histori ov our stet, never related 

gmv ev Jemz Larason. Freni the btginnig corner, tu a peint 
sum 85 fet frem tils gmv, ths fens ecstendz stmt ; frem this peint, 
tu a peint abeut 85 fet bsyend the gmv tbs fens iz so deflected 
tu ths west that it entirli clerz the ston that, cuverz the gmv ; 
thens ths fens iz az stmt az a liu tu the peint at. liwicli it termi- 
nals. — It iz such regard for the ded and such alon. that enebulz 
us, tu de, tu find die final restig pies ev the bedi ev eur ansestor 
Jemz Larason, Such regard iz enorabul ; and hi me, at lest, the 
persun in hum such respect apperz iz ceusiderd wurthi ev pmz. 

Hwil at Mr. Ege’z, i wez shon several fhigz that wer wurthi 
ev attenshun, and wurthi ev not is her. Qmui) them or tu 
stonz— relics ev the ston ej, no deut, that ar ctp-ius inded Wun 
ev tiiem, sumhwet triaggipar in simp, ner 3 fet leg, in the logger 
acsis, and 18 inchez fhic, iz yuzd az a step tu ad in meuntig a 
hors, or a wagen . It distigctli slioz die chizelig ev the aborijin- 
ez liuz liandiwurc it evidentli iz. 

In liiz parlor, * ©Iso so the char in hwicli Devid Steut sat 
liwen he rot hiz nem upen the ded that cenvad tile anshent tract 
frem David Steut tu Jemz Larason. It. iz an ocen clier ev the 
best pattern and the best wurcmanship ev “ 3 m olden timz” — 
liwen the best cherz wer mad ev ocen legz, ocen bettemz, and 
lii bacs, censistig ev ocen rugz, swpportig a larj ocen cresenf for 
a bac and arm-rests, and a smoler ocen cresent, perclit upen die 
ocen rugz ev the senter ev the bac, for a bed -rest. 


t u ms this tradisfhunal matter. Of'en J incwlrd 
9 v him the orijin ov tbs Lari sun Famili from 
hwidh hs dssended. IJiz rspli yuniformli be- 
gan with the stetment that hiz grandfather, 
Jemz Larason, settuld upon a farm in the toun- 
sfhip a v Hojjwel, Nsn Jerzi, and that hs had 
sics sunzand tins doterz. 

Bac ov Jemz Larason, f cud never get ml 
Grandfather tn go. Hs yuzd tn se “hwens 
Jemz Larason cem, J do not no. Hs mit hav 
cum from ifrland. Tlier ar a plenti ov ^risfh- 
men hi ths nem Larason; and ther iz no uther 
persun lna can so glibli and so yufonicli utter 
ths nem Larason az an irishman. Bssidz, 
meni ov die trets ov ths older Larason z ar veri 
mudh lie ths pscgliaritiz ov ths pspul in ths 
north ov jErland. The ol wer stout, wel bilt 
men L la had gre oi* big Tz, hwlt, freculd scin 
and cors, red or ©burn, curb, her. The ol had 
prominent, stret nozez, stret monthz, larj, strog 
u])per lips, gud, regglarli set t sth, and the wer 
veri ful ov yumur, The ol lie t fun, and ther 
woz no sport that vvoz attended with to meni 
denjerz for them. The ol wer fond ov horsez; 
die bred ths best ov horsez, — espesdialli sifted 
tn resig; the ol wer gud riderz, and at reses 
mostli rod ther on horsez. Qltho dignifld in 
dier manners and seremonius in addres, the ol 
induljd in witti reminissensez and ol enjoid a 


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hart i laf. The wer ol veri sensitiv — cerful gv 
hvvot tli 6 sed, and ev the manner gv utterig it. 
The never let an imiendo pas unnotist. O slit 
effens provoct an incwlri intiii tbs menig and 
intensfhun gv the offender end settulment at 
wuns ensgd. The ol luvd pes; and pes die 
wild hav; but, tu menten pes, die efen had tu 
dia a del gv fitig, in hwich no Larason cem out 
secund best. In ol gv diis, yu se meni trets 
diat ar prominent amug die Irisfh.” 

In Irland I am told, ar meni Larasonz. 
Occezhunalli I hav met an Irishman bi die 
nem, Larason. Ujion incwlri respect ig thser- 
ij in gv flie Larasonz in Irland, sum gv das Irish 
Larasonz hav told ms a stori clos acin tu dis 
tradishun prevalent amug ths older Larasonz 
ev Qmerica; — that iz tu se, ths Iri<di stet that 
ths Larasonz, in Irland, ar ths dssendants gv a 
DenisTi nobulman, hi nem Larsen, hui in ths 
rsbelyun in Den marc, in 1(365, ded hiz cuntri 
and settuld in Irland. Upon this thsm an 
Irisfh Larason yuzqalli wacsez elocwent. In 
hiz pansjiric, hs yuzgalli <>ets in meni diigz 
diat I dia not wisli tu rslet just her; but diigz 
that hs so preudli telz that I olwez pesfhentli 
lisen tu him til hs iz dun, — if it tecs him a de 
and a nit tu cemplet hiz stori. 

Hwether Jemz Larason cem directli from 


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Jrland tu this cunt ri and in die cors ov tun, set- 
tuld upon the old Larason honisted alop Sioni 
Bruc; or hwetherhe iz a sun ov Jon Larason, 
the Dsn, hia fled hizcuntriand settuld upon Lop 
Band; or h wether lie iz the sun ov Wily am 
Larason ov Nen Brunzwic, N. J.; or h wether 
he iz ov eni u flier linesj, matterz veri littul tu 
me. The stoc iz gud enuf. derlvd from hwot- 
ever sors it ms he. But az vvun ov die defend- 
ants, 1 wish, in this narresfhun, tu be far in 
stetip hwotever can he found tu substaiisfhiet 
eni lnpethesis that ever haz bin,* — or ever me 
be, efferd Oltho meni timz befor, 1 hav pe- 
riazd die ensfhent recordz ov our St at, in cwest 
ov facts relativ tu our famili, 1 fhot it proper, 
befor completip this appendics, tu wuns mor 
egzaniin the ansfhent, documents and refresh nil 
memori respect ig, espeshalli, meni ov die mi- 
nor points. . Accordigli, upon the 21st ov 
Ogust, 1891, eded hi Meri W. Prol and Su- 
zan M. Fillips htaz ecsperiens in redip and 
bandlig the manuscripts ov thoz lua rot the er- 
best documents — sudh az wilz, dedz, bondz, 
morgejez, die recordz ov the erliest prosedipz 
ov the Coi ts ov Xeu Jerzi, the prosedipz ov the 
erliest sesflhunz ov die Lejisletiv bodi ov Xeu 
Jerzi, &c. &c., hav med them ecspert az red- 
erz ov peperz in old Ipglisfh, and in the spelip 
and sintacs ov the Apglo-Qmerican lapgwej in 


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colonial tlrnz, J cerfulli, and thumb egzamind 
ol ffis recordz in tbs offis ov tbs Secret eri ev 
Stet, at Trentun, Nsu Jcrzi. In soduig, ^ find 
not a dsd convaig landz tu a persun bl tbs nein 
Larason, olffio i hav handuld meni dsdz — and 
non bav, in mi poszeshun, sum ov the dsdz — 
thatconve larj tracts ov land tu persunz b! ths 
item Larason. This, til ms, iz hard I i az sur- 
prlzig az it iz tu sudh az ar les familyar with 
tbs vvaz ov duig biznes prior tu tbs begin nir) 
ov ths ])i*ezent senUpi. Formerli, an offis ov 
record woz les dspended upon for ths prezerve- 
sfhun ov Lsgal documents, dsdz, l>ondz, mor- 
gejez, &c., &c. Fir-pnaf volts wcr feu, if, in- 
dsd, ther vver eni. So, ffis scrivener mad in- 
denturz; — that iz, hs rot upon tu separet pss- 
ez ov pardhment, ffis articulz ov contract ; then 
hs plest wun ov ffis pssez ov parcfbment upon 
bwidh bs bad ritten the contract, upon ffis top 
ov tbs Other pss; and bwen hs bad mad them 
sscpr tu a bord, upon a tebul, so ffiat ffis wun 
cud not slid, or muv, upon ths uffier, with a 
sharp nlf, ecstendig thru tu tbs bord, bs cut an 
irregular, or wavig marjin, upon wun, — and 
sumtlmz upon mor than wun — ov ths sidz ov 
ths tu pssez ov parchment. Hs then gav wun 
ov ffisz indentprz tu tbs individual lna woz tbs 
first person in ths contract and tbs uffier tu 
ths individual hu woz ffis secund persun in tbs 


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emit met.' — So, edh had a voucher In li vvicfli ref- 
erens cud be mod at eni t Ini ov ned. And in 
ces theothentisiti ov a voudher woz ewestyund, 
tiis partiz in dispip had oidi tn com per tlier 
indentgrz. In cos the indents shvnz on the 
marjinz corresponded, die matter ov ©fhentisiti 
woz settuld. 

Eespectii] wilz, the matter cud not be con- 
ducted in so simpul a wo. In'veri erli tlmz — 
far bac in the ojez — Corts ov Probot wer es- 
tablish, befor hwidh egzecgtors must apper, 
with wil in hand, befor prosedig tu ecseegt sed 
wil. Olmost az log ago, loz provided that die 
orz ov eni estot must apper befor a Probot 
Cort and render an account ov the properti ov 
the desest, befor the cud legalli, dispoz ov die 
properti. The Probot Cort, then, afford z a fill- 
er account ov thoz diigz hwidh ar the facts ov 
fundamental important in famili histori. 

Houever, the loz regglotig the Corts ov Pro- 
bo I hav never bin so egzactig, nor yet so rij- 
idli enforst that egzecgtorz ov wilz. and orz ov 
estots hav not sumtlmz settuld widi creditorz, 
detorz and orz without npplligtu the sed Corts 
for permisfhun tu prosed in the matter. In- 
ded, so rernis ar the loz reggle tig the Corts ov 
Probot that I hav non larj estots tu be settuld 
and divided amui) the orz without so mudh az 
goig tu a Surrogot’s offis. Hens, so ofen, we, 


3:>2 


in ven, serdh His record/, ov the Corts ov Pro- 
bet for thoz facts hwidh rslat, direct li tu the; 
famili histori. But, in the record/ ov the erli 
Probet Corts, ws found several fliirjz, islet ii) 
tu the Larasunz, ov hwidh IF must lit. 

In copiig vvilz, dsdz &c„, ws folio ths o- 
rijinal, in speliij, yns ov capital/, sintacs &c., 
&c., az nsrli az ws can, 

r fhe wil ov wun Wilyam Larason, ov Nsn 
Brunzwic, (tn -meat ttis lsst, a ctpiositi — es- 
pesfhalli ths Thsolojic fez ov it), iz first in the 
order ov tim. It iz az folloz: 

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I William Larrison of the 
City of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and Prov- 
ince of New Jersey being thro* the abundant Mercy of God tho” 
Sick & Weak in Body Yet of Sound and Perfect mind under- 
standing and memory Do make Ordain Constitute this my Last. 
Will and Testament and Desire that it may be Received bj- all 
a,s Such Imprimis I Most humbly Bequeath my Soul to God my 
Maker beseeching his Most, Gracious acceptance of it thro' the all 
Sufficient Merits & Mediations of my Most Compassionate Re- 
deemer Jesus Christ who Gave himself to be an Atonement for 
my Sins and is able to Save to the Uttermost all that Come un- 
to God by him Seeing he Ever liveth to make Intercession for 
them and who I Trust will not reject me a Returning Penitent 
Sinner when I Come to him for Mercy in this hope and Confi- 
dence I Render up my Soul with Comfort humbly beseeching 
tlie Most Blessed and Glorious Trinity One God most holy Most 
Merciful and Gracious to prepare me for the time ol my Dissolu- 
tion and then to take me unto himself into that peace and Rest 
and incomparable felicity which he has prepar’d for all that Love 


and fear his Holy Name. Imprimis I Give my Body to the 
Eaitli from whence it was taken in full assurance of its Resur- 
rection from thence at the Last Day as for my Burial I desire it 
may he Decent without Pomp or Stale at the Discretion of my 
Executors hereafter named Who I doubt not will Manage it 
with all Requisite prudence as for Such Worldly Goods & Estate 
as it has pleased God to bless me witlmll I Give & Bequeath in 
Manner following. To my Oldest Son James Larrison I Give 
and Bequeath the Sum of Ten Pounds proclamation Money to 
be paid to him by my Executors within One Year after my De- 
cease and as for the Rest of my Worldly Goods and Estate both 
Real and Personal I Give and Bequeath to be Divided Equally 
between my Sons William Larrison Thomas Larrison John Lar- 
rison and George Larrison Item I do make & Constitute my be- 
loved Son John Larrison and Son in Law David Stout to be my 
Executors of this my Will and do empower them to Collect in 
my Debts and Dispose of my Estate to the best advantage at 
their Discretion of my Executors and after paying my Just 
Debts Funeral Charges and my aforesaid Legacy to Divide the 
Remainder as aforesaid among my aforesaid Sons William 
Thomas John & George and I do hereby Revoke and Disannul 
all Other Wills Whatsoever heretofore by me made Ratifying 
and Confirming this and only this to be my Last Will and Test- 
ament In Witness whereof I Ihe said William Larrison have 
hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Seventh day of April in the 
twenty Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George 
the Second by the Grace of God King &c and the Year of our 

Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred and forty Nine 

his 

William Larrison 

mark 

Signed & Sealed published pronounced & Declared by the said 
William Larrison to be his Last Will and Testament in the pres- 
ence of us Jediah Higgins Samuel Neilson Ro Rolfe 

Jediah Higgins and Robert Rolfe two of the Witnesses to the 


within Will being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty 
Gocl did Severally Depose that Ihey Saw William Larrison of 
the City of New Brunswick The Testator, Within Named Sign 
& Seal the Same and heard him Publish ptonounce and Declare 
the within Instrument to be bis Last Will and Testament and 
that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of Sound and dis- 
posing mind & memory as far as these Deponents know & as 
they Verily believe and that Samuel Neilson the Other Subscrib- 
ing Witness was present and Signed his Name as a Witness to 
the said Will together with these Deponents in the presence of 
the said Testator Jediali Higgins Ro Rolfe Sworn May 30tl» 
1749. Tlieos Severns Suit. 

Be it Remembered that the Last Will and Testament of Wil- 
liam Larrison being duly proved as aforesaid Probate and Let- 
ters Testamentary were Granted by His Excellency Jonathan 
Belcher Esq. Governor of the Province of New Jersey &c unto 
John Larrison and David Stout the Exs. in the said Will Named 
they being duly Sworn well and Truly to Perform the said Will 
and Exliibite a True and Perfect Inventory and render a Just 
account when thereunto Lawfully Required. Given under the 
Prerogative Seal of the said Province at Burlington the fourth 
day of July ADom. 1749. 

Chas. Read Preg. 

The wil that iz neest in tiis order ev tlm iz 
that ©V Yvuii Wily am Lara son, ov Rocsberi 
Tounslhip, in the ceunti gv Morris, Neii Jerzi. 
It iz dated November 11, 1777. 

The wil gv David Larason iz az folloz: 

IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY I David Larason 
of the Township Hopewell in the County of Hunterdon and State 
of New r Jersey, being at this “ time ” very weak in body but of 
sound mind and memory, blessed be God do this nineteenth day 


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of November in the year of our nord One Thousand Eight Hun- 
dred make & publish this my last will and Testament in manner 
following, that is to say, first, I orde all my just debts and fun- 
eral Expenses to be satisfied and paid as soon as coveniently 
can be by my Executors (herein after named) after my decease, 
Item I give and devise to my wife Jerusha, the Plantation where 
I now live for and during her widowhood, with a sufficiency 
of Stock “& farmer’s ulentials together with the Household and 
Kitchen Furniture ” to cany on the place, Item I leave the 
place where my son Jonathan now lives to be sold as soon as 
can be convenient, by my executors heariuafter named after my 
decease. Item & Jerusha my wife is to bring up the two young- 
est Children with sufficient laming and put them to trades. Item 
and Jerusha my wife is to put Amos my Son to a trade & find 
cloathing till he is becomes of age. Item and I leave the re- 
nin nder of my stock to be sold by my Executors, Item & my 
son Jonathan is to work the Place where I now live on provid- 
ed they can agree, Item & at. the expiration of my wife’s widow 
hood my Estate shall be equally divided between my Sons Jon- 
athan, Amos, Charles, Enoch, to their use forever. And lastly 
I constitute and appoint Jerusha my wife & John Sexton or the 
survivor of them to be my Executors of this my last Will & Tes- 
tament. In Witness whereof I the said David Larison have 
to this my last Will & Testament set my hand and Seal the day 
and year above Written. David Larason. 

Signed, sealed pronounced and declared by the said David Lar- 
ison as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us 
who were present at the signing and sealing theirof- Wil- 

liam Golden, Elijah Larson, David Golden. 

In the Probet Cort ev Hunterdun Ceunti, 
!Nen Jerzi, iz the felloirj record respectiij the 
estet, ev Amlria Larason, sun ev Jemz Lara- 


son, Hopwel Teunsfhip, Merser Comiti, ^ssu 
Jerzi : 

Andrew Larason Ints. 

Letters of Administration were granted by li is Excellency 
Richard Howell Esq. unto Levinia Larason Administratrix and 
James Laiason Administator of the Estate of Andrew Larason, 
late of Hunteidon County, deceased, they having been firstduly 
sworn, well and truly to Administer the same. Exhibit a true 
and perfect Inventory and render a just and true account of 

their Administration Given under the Prerogative Seal the 

18th day of December A. D. 1800 

John Beat 1 y Regr. 

Compd . 

The felloiij iz self eesplanatori : 

Comp. 

Andrew Larrison ) Letters of Administration were granted 
Ints. $2548.58 $ by the Hon. John Lambert Esq. Vice 

president of the Council, unto Sarah Larrison. Administratrix, 

and William Larrison, Administrator of the Estate of Andrew 

Larrison, late of Morris County, deceased, they having been 

first duly sworn, well and truly to administer the same, exhibit 

a true and perfect Inventory and render a just and true account 

of their administration. Given under the prerogative seal, the 

30th day of May, A 1). 1803. 

John Beatty, .Regr. 

Tbs abuv ar the onli record z that find a- 
inuij tbs arcivz ©v Nsu Jerzi, dsj>©zited in tbs 
©ffis ©v tbs Secrsteri ©v Slot at Trentun, N. J. 

Hwelher Jemz Larason, ©ur ansestor, iz tbs 
Larason inenshund in ths wil ©v Wilyam Lai- 
ason ©v Nsu Brunzwie, tber yet appsrz no 
msnz ©v dsterminiiy But tber vv©z, at tbs lsst. 


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wun Lurisim in die teunsfhip gv IIoj)vvel prior 
U\ tbs Urn tli.it iz best nz the det gv the advent 
gv Jafnz Larasom Upon a tacs list for Hop- 
vvel Teimslhip, for tiie yer 1722, apperz the nem 
gv wun Wilyam Larason lna iz tacst for lbO 
Gcei-z gv land, 11 cguz and liorsez, and 9 sfh&p. 
BesTdz, the fel loir) indent ip*, (the oldest dGci)- 
ment 1 hav found — a wel prezervd old pardh- 
raent liwidh iz the properti gv Ralf Ege lna ugh 
onz and dwelz u])gii a part gv die old Jemz 
Larason Homsted,) deelerz, that lrwen Jemz 
Larason purdhast the tract gv Devid Stent, 
bofli he and Stent wer lezidents ev the tenn- 
shij) gv Hopwel: 

THIS INDENTURE Made this Eighteenth Day of June 
in the fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the 
third over England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender 
of the faith and anno Domine one thousand Sevenhundred and 
Sixty five Between Mr. David Stout of Hopewell in the County 
of Hunterdon and in the Westron Division of the Province of 
Newjarsey of the one Part and James Larrison of the Place afore 
Said Yeoman of the other Part Witnesseth that Whereas 
William Coxe Daniel Coxe Rebecca Coxeand Grace Coxe Heirs 
and Devisees of Coll. Daniel Coxe (late of trenton Deceassed) by 
their Deed bearing Date the Tenth Day of June anno 1765 grant 
and Convey to the Said David Stout a Cartin Plantation in Hope- 
well Containing two Hundred and forty three acres Rec orce be- 
ing had to the Deed afore Said fully and at large may appear 
and the Said David Stout Doth for and In consideration of the 
Sum of twelve Hundred Pounds of Good and Liawfull Money of 
the Place aforesaid to him in hand paid before the Ensealing and 


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Delivering liearof by him the Said James Larrison the Receipt 
whereof 1 the Said David Stout do hearby acknowledg and 
myself therewith fully Satisfied Contented and Paid and thereof 
and of every Part and Parcel thereof do acquit Exonerate and 
Discharge the Said James Larrison his heirs Executors and ad- 
ministerators for Ever by these Presents have given Granted 
bargained Sold alinated Conveyed and Confirmed and by these 
Presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain Sell 
alien Convey and Confirm unto the Said James Larrison his 
heirs and assigns for Ever all the afore said plantation Situate 
in Hopewell Containing two Hundred and forty three acres as 
aforesaid and is butted and Bounded as followeth Viz. Beg in in 
at a gutn tree Standing on the East Side of Sloney Brook being 
also a Corner to Land late Carles Sextons Deceassed and Rim- 
ing from thence by Said Sextons Line South forty one Degrees 
East fifty three Chains to a poste for a Corner thence South Six- 
ty Eight Degrees East nineteen Chains to a Stake that Corner to 
James Hunts land thence by his line South Seventy Eight Chains 
to another Stake Standing in a Line of Land of Nickolas Way- 
Cotf thence by his line West Sixteen Chains to a Blackoak on 
the Side of the aforesaid Stoney Brook thence up the Said Brook 
Bounding there with to the place of Beginning and Containing 
With in the Bounds afore Said two Hundred and forty three a- 
cres of land to have and to hold the Said two Hundred and 
forty three acres of Land Bounded as aforesaid together with all 
the Mines Minerals Hawkings Huntings fowlings fishings with 
all the Houses buildings orchard Gardings fences and all other 
Improvements with all the Rights Prophets Previliges Hearidi- 
terments and apurienances whatsoever unto the same belonging 
or in any wise appurtaining unto him the Said James Larison 
and his heirs and assigns for Ever his and their only proper use 
benefit and behoof for Ever and I the Said David Stout for me my 
heirs Executors and admin is t era-tors do Covenant Promis and 
Grant to and with the Said James Larrison his heirs and assigns 


that before the Ensealing hearof I am the true Sole and lawful! 
owner of the above Bargained premisses and am lawfully Seized 
and possessed of the Same in mine own proper Right as a good 
Perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance and have in my Self 
good right full power and lawfull authority to grant bargain 
Sell Convey and Confirm the Said Bargained premisses in man- 
ner as above Said and that the Said James Larrison his heirs 
and assigns Shall and may from time to time and at all times for 
Ever hea rafter ly Virtue of these Presents Lawfully Peaceably 
and quietly have hole use occupy possess and Enjoy the Said 
demissed and bargained Premisses With the apurtinances free 
and Clear and freel} r and Clearly acquitted Exonerated and Dis 
charged of and from all and all manner of former Gifts— Grants 
Bargains Sales Leasses Mortguages Wills Entails Joyntures 
Dowryes Judgments Executions Incumbrances and troubels 
Whatsoever and I the Said David Stout do further Covenant and 
bind myself my heirs Exers. and admrs. and Every of them firm- 
ly by these Presenls to Warrant and Defend the Said James Lar- 
rison his heirs and assigns in Quiet and peaceable possession of 
all and Singular the Said Granted and bargained premisses a* 
gainst any Just and Lawful! Claim of any person or persons 
Whatsoever In Witnkss Whereof I the Said David Stout have 
hearunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year first above 
Wraton 

David Stout 

f William Bryant 

Sealed and Executed J his 

In the Presence of ] William Foster 

l Mark 

(N. B. Az ci spesimen ev lnvet an Gmerican scrivener, in 
colonial titnz, derd tu du in vloletii) the loz ev the Irjglish laij- 
gwej, tile speliq, yus ev capitalz, punctqashunz and sintactic 
arrenjment ev wurdz, clozez and frezez, this old ded iz an 
admirabul spesimen. The clregrctfi iz such az tu sho that til e 
persun duii] the scrivener wurc wez net wun ec the persunz 
buz num apperz in or cibeut the ded J 


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Bssldz, oil pej 333, ill ths wil ev Wilyam 
Lara son, ev Nsu Brunzwic, yn wil ss that wun 
Dev id Stout, wun ev ths egzecqt.orz ev that 
wil wez a sun-in-lo ev Wilyam Lara son. In 
the histori ev the Sleut famili, it iz steted that 
a Devid Stent marrid Elizabeth Larason. 
The wlf ev Rolf Egs, lna iz a dssendant Ireni 
David Stent and Elizabeth Larason, telz ins 
that her grand muther, lna wez espes'halli verst 
in ths jensaloji ev ths familiz ev Hopwel, yuzd 
tu se that her grandmuther, Blizaheth Stent, 
wez a sister tu Jemz Larason. Bssld, Nefh- 
an Stent, ev Amwel, (nen 80 ysrz old), ths 
o-randsun ev ths other ev this histori ev ths 
Stent famili and tiis persun lna cozd tiis print - 
ii] ev ths hue, and a man hia haz t.aeen espesh- 
al interest in ths jensaloji ev ths Stent famili 
and in ol hia ar in eni we related thertu, in- 
forrnz ms that tiis Stents hav olwez told him 
that Blizaheth Larason. ths wlf ev David Stent, 
wez a sister tu Jarnz Larason ev Hopwel and 
ths doterev wun Wilyam Larason. And, ad- 
ed tu this, iz tiis strer) prehahiliti that ths Da- 
vid Stent, ths sun-in-lo ev Wilyam Larason, 
iz ths David Stent lna cenvad ths tract, nsr 
Stoni Brue, tu Jamz Larason. 

Aded tu ths ahuv evidens that Jamz Lara- 
son wez a sitizen ev Hopwel, prior tu 1705, 
ws hav ths fact that hiz sun Andria, at ths tlm. 


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vvez a rezident, gv tbs Count i gv Hunterdun, 
luid marrid and wgz tiis parent gv wun dhlld • 
olso that hiz sun Jgh had marrid Mari Peltun, 
doter gv that wel non In-ceper, Benj. Peltun, 
and wgz, at that tim, cepig a hotel hwar Jen 
Burroz non livz. 

Perhaps a inor thuro serdh gv therecordz gv 
Hop wel Tennship wud go far toordz illipiiin- 
atii) this perplecsii) cwestyun. Az die matter 
standz, it wil anser our purpus tu assipn that 
Jemz Larason iz the sun gv Jen Larason, die 
Pen ; that J amz Larason, az tradisbun informz 
us, incwest gv a sit that premist favurabul re- 
zuits in mlnii) for silver and copper, in macig 
a surva gv die nidi settuld feldz gv Hop wel, 
discuverd, upon the surfas gv die tract he pur- 
dhast, barium sulfet, and uther evidensez gv 
the egzistens gv silver and copper, purdhast 
the tract, and at wuns settuld upon it, cem- 
menst ininii) eperashunz, farmii) and techir) and 
thar remand til hiz defh. 


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CHAPTER II 

WILYCLM LARASON, SUN 0V JON, TH8 D6N. 

Wilyam Larason, sun gv J©n, the Den, pur- 
dhast a tract gv 400 ecerz, ner Blac River, in 
the tonnsfhip gv Chester, cGimti gv Morris, 
stet gv Nsu Jerzi. IIs wgz a farmer. He did 
subsscwent tu the yer 1777. That lie did be- 
for hiz children attend ther majeriti, we hav 
this evidens : In hiz wil, deted September 1st 
1777, he providz for and directs that hiz tu 
sunz Jemzand Devid sThal lie sent tu scial un- 
til the accwTr “gild Iqglisfh lernig.” — It iz a 
matter gv tradisfhun that thez tui sunz arrivd 
at ther majeriti, under the direcshunz gv the 
Administrator gv the abuv nemd wil. 

The contents gv hiz wil indicet that he did 
sezd gv a gud estet in lands and chattel z. 


1 David 


Untu 


2 Jeraz 


Wily a m Larason 


3 Andru 


and 


4 Elizabeth 


Padhens 


5 Mari 


vvoz born 


6 Nansi 


1 David settuld in Hector, Seller Co., N. Y. 


1 Jozef, born Qpril 25, 1798. 

2 Benjamin, d!d yur). 

3 Wilyam, born Qg.,25, 1801. 

4 David, went tn Illinois. 


Until 


1 David 


woz born 


Jozef marrid Nansi Bonli, bl hum he had 
Jamz M., born Jun 30, 1825; Jozef H., born 
Ogust 27, 1827; Minor, born Jun 6, 1832; 
Jon Ja, born November, 17, 1836. — Jon Jaiz 
die father ov Cordelia hu marrid F. W. Lari- 
sun M. D., ov Lambertvil, N. J. 

Wilyam woz born Ogust 25, 1801. Hiz 
dhildren wer — Henri S., boi*n October 19, 1825; 


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Ja Gurrel, born November 17, 1826; Wasfh- 
igtun, born November 25, 1827; David, born 
Junl6, 1829; *>Torj , born Mardh 28, 1830; and 
Wilyam Harrisun, born Ogust 3, 1835. 


Unto 
2 Jamz 
woz born 


Peter, never marrid. 
Wilyam, 

{ Jamz, 

J ozef W ert m an, 
Andria 


Wilyam sett u Id in Warren Co., and beeam 
a preminent sitizen. He had sunz — Jamz, 
Peter, Floid, and JozefW. hia wez the fattier ev 
loyer Wilyam Larisun A. M. ev Nparc, N. J. 


Until 
3. Andria 
wez born 


Wilyam, 

Mari, 

Jen, 

{ Benjamin, 
Pasfhens, 
Sail i, 
David, 


CHAP TUB IIL 


J ON, SUN 0 V JON, TH8 I)6N» 


Jen settuld nsr hiz bruther Wil vam, ner ths 
Blae river, in Morris Co., J. He had a 
nqmerus famili hu spred tu ths for cworterz ov 
the erfh, and becem parents ©v meni a wurthi* 
enterprizig fello bl the nem ov Larason. Tu ov 
hiz sunz, Jon and Wilyam, wer blind; and, az 
the both wer fond ov mgzic and. pled the vio- 
lin wel, the becem widli non az the “blind fid- 
dlerz.” 


Until 

Jon 

wer born 


Peter, born 1747. 

Jon, born 1750. 

Henri, born * 

Wilyam, born 1758. 
Jecob, born 17(31. 
Edward Dun, born 1761. 
Jorj, born 


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Henri and Jeceb settuld in Mount Holli* 
S'. J. Jorj settuld at a pies, in Ohio, then 
non az “Stigc and Sa sti/’ non cold Sinsinnatti, 
hwen ther woz onli wun brie lions in the pies. 
He wez die father ov Febe Hue t, ov Bremli, 
Ky., hu gev hwot informesfhun, menli, we hav 
respectii] this brandh ov die famili. 


CHAPTER IV. 

jeMZ, SUN OV JON, THe DeN, 

Jemz Larason woz a wel proporsdiund, dig- 
ni fid man, derig, bold, practist in the athletic 
sports peculiar tu hiz de, fond ov horsez, and 
aecwented with hues. Jn hiz de, he woz count- 
ed wun ov the most athletic. Hiz tendensi In 
lernig ined him ^ccwented with the scolarz ov 
hiz tlm, and he had an cnviabul lvputeshun az 
a tsdher. Upon hiz estet, he erected a log 
liens in hwidh lie tot a scul that woz attended 
/ bl meni hu sot a liter educeshun. Ol hiz chil- 
dren began Ilf az tedherz; and sum ov them foi- 
led tedhig az a Ilf vocesfhun, — oltho, edh ov 
them cupuldwith tedliig sum uther biznes. 


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Sircumstansez cupuld with tradi^hunal ai> 
counts, led ins tu hslsv that Jemz Larason 
W9z seild in tbs slensez jeneralli, and espeslhal- 
li in mineraloji. Doutles he hunted out, pur- 
cfhast and settuld upon the tract he ond aleg 
tiis Stoni Bruc, becoz ov die indiceshun that it 
abounded in orz — espesfhalli thoz ov copper, 
silver and barium. 

At an erli det, he began tu mm for silver 
and coj)|)er. (Dldio both rnetalz wer found in 
divers plesez on hiz estat, tha occurd in cwon- 
titiz so smol that the mlnii) industri servd ratti- 
er tu cep hiz purs empti than tu be a rnenz ov 
filii) it. 

BesTdz, the wurc ov mlnii) woz attended with 
grat difficult iz. The sits indicetirj or, abound- 
ed in vanz ov woter; hens, tu cep the ecseave- 
sfhunz fre from woter recwlrd an ecspens that 
woz ever macir) demandz upon hiz menz deiivd 
from uther resorsez. 

The masheneri yuzd tu hoist both the woter 
and the oriferus roc woz the old tlm swep, mad 
bl plantir) a hi post, crodht at die upper end, 
and dien ficsii], bl menz ov a bolt in the crodh 
ov the post, a lor) swep, tu wun end ov hwidh 
a hqj bucet woz attacfht, tu the uther end a 
wat suffishent tu lift the bucet hwen did with 
woter, roc or or. In ficsii] wun ov thez sweps. 


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hiz sun 81lja, liwen a boi, woz so bad I i injurd 
that he never entTrli recuverd. Becumig en- 
tagguld in the gerir) at the bucet end ov tilt; 
swep, just az hedetadht die bucet, the wet up- 
on die uther end desended with sudh fors and 
rapiditi that it |)rojected him into die tops ov 
the trez. In folig, he sustend injnriz ev hiz bed. 
hac and limz that, at first, fhretend hiz UK, and 
med him a crippul and a sufferer for ©1 hiz 
dez. 

Hors pouer woz ©Iso yuzd tn pump water 
and tn lift or and roc. 

Far meni yerz, berium sulfet haz bin ecs- 
tensivli mind on die old Larason homsted. 
Hundreds ov tunz ar non pi 1 d up in heps, red i 
tu be sent awe. 

Jemz Larason woz ecstensivli engejd in 
fruit cultip*. Hiz grandsun, Andria, yuzd tn 
^e: “Mi grandfadier planted gret ©rdhardz 
in hwidh wer everi manner ov fruit that izculti- 
veted in this latitqd. Ov appulz, ther woz no 
end; perz, pedhez, plumz, epricots, pruinz, 
dherriz &c., ov everi verleti ov hwidh he herd, 
he had in abundans, — so mudh that, no mar- 
cet cud be found far them, and die deced, in die 
©rdhardz, bl the bufhelz, and bl the diouzandz 
ov bnsfhelz.” And, bl die we, a feu ov die re- 
menz ov the ©rdhardz, set hwll he yet livd, stil 


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stand and her fnat. Upon Ogust 5, 1891, Mr. 
Ralf Ege tncme tn an appul tre, (an Erli Ben, 
ev lnij trugc upon hwidh a fen fhrifti, scraglig 
sucerz hor several appulz) from hwidh % et 
fruit. 

Upon the left bagc ev Stoni Brnc, nerli west 
ev ths spot en liwidh the old heus stud, wer a 
slder-hens, a stil-hens and a hens for storir) 
hvvisci. The slder-mil, pres and slder-hens 
stud upen the est sld ev the rod; die stil-hens 
and stor-hens stud upen ths west sld. Az 
the deeliviti ev the slop from the tebul-land tn 
the rivulet, iz hi and step — almost presipitus — 
and az a cold sprig ishshuz from the sld ev this 
slop, ner 70 fet abuv the rivulet, this sit, wez 
fevurabul tn die manufaetur ev hwisci. Frem 
die slder-hens, hi over the rod — hi enuf for the 
wagenz tn pas heneth — a truijo ecstended tn 
the stil-hens, thru hwidh trugc, past the slder 
from the slder-hens tn the stil-hens. 

Ths sit en hwidh stud the stil-hens and die 
stor-hens arstil vizibul. 

Jainz Larason wez veri fend ev liorsez — es- 
peshalli so, ev sudh az had gud sped cwelitiz. 
0v hi bred liorsez, he olwez ond a gret meni; 
and, in the resez at Leg Hand, be efen had a 
hors enterd; and hiz liorsez efen wun the prlz. 

Q psculiariti ev the man and hiz ecssesiv 


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fondues for a meritorius hors, me 1)8 lernd from 
a stori that I hav ofen herd 1 old. It muz az 
felloz: In liiz lions woz a larj riam, enterd 
both from Hi 8 frunt and rsr; from sdli sid ov 
this rum, dorz opend into uther apartments. 
In this rum, hs ofen cept, fora hvvil, ths winniij 
hors after it rsturnd from ths Log Hand 
resez. 

Hiz sunz and hiz grandsunz vver ecwalli 
fond ov horsez; ol wer brsdorz ov his best 
stedz; ol wer gad rlderz, and ths most ov them 
1 let ths res, and tee part in ths iesez liwidh 
ynzd tn be so prominent a factor ov Qmeriean 
Ilf, wun and tu hundred ysrz ago. 

Ol ov Jemz Larasonz sunz-in-lo wer brsd- 
erz ov ths most noted stocs ov horsez; and ol 
ov them, sven mor than Jemz and hiz sunz, 
figurd at Log Hand, and at uther noted resig 
plesez. 

Az sumfhig mor hian an ordineri interest ©1- 
wez attadhez tn ths biznes transacdhunz ov 
wunz ansestorz, I her introdps his dsd med b! 
Jemz Larason tn hiz sunz, Devid and Slija: 

THIS INDENTURE made the fourteenlh Day of February 
Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One 
Between James Larason of the Township of Hopewell in the 
County of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey of the one part 
and Elijah Larason & David Larason of the same place ol' the 
Other part, Witnesseth that the said James Larason for & in 


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Consideration of the Natural Love & Affection I have for my 
two Sons the Afforsaid Elijah & David Larason & also for 
& iu Consideration of the Sum of two Hundred & thirteen 
pounds Current Money of the State of New Jersey afforsaid 
to be paid by the said Elijah & David Larason Unto my 
Daughters & their Children in manner following that is to Say 
unto my Daughter Anne Parks the Sum of thirteen pounds to 
be paid in two years after my Decease & unto my Grand Chil- 
dren, the Children of the said Anne Parks Viz. John Sexton, 
Sarah Sexton, Achsah Sexton, Margart Sexton, William Sexton, 
Eijah Sexton & Anne Sexton the Sum of fifty pounds to be 
Equally Divided between them, that is to say to each one sev- 
enth part of said fifty pounds, John Sexton to receive his 
part in two years after my Decease & the rest of the Children 
as they respectively arive at the Age of twenty one years & if 
any of my said Grand Children Should Die before they are of 
the Age of twenty one years & not having Lawful Issue, their 
share or part to be paid to the Surviving Children share & share 
alike. — To my Daughter Elizabeth Runyan the Sum of thirty 
pounds to be paid to her in two years after my Decease, also to 
my for Grand Children, the Children of my said Daughter Eliz- 
abeth Runyan Viz Andrew, John, Aaron & Achsah Runyan the 
Sum of forty pounds to be Equal. y Divided between them An- 
drew to receive his part in tw r o years after my Decease and the 
lest of the Children as they arrive at the Age of twenty one 
years, but if Any of the Children Should Die before they are of 
Age & not having Lawful Issue the part of the Deceased to be 
Equally Divided between the Surviving Children. To my 
Daughter Catherine Sexton the Sum of Fifti pounds in two 
years after my Decease & to her two Children the Sum of ten 
pounds each to be paid to them when they respectively arrive 
at the Age of twenty one years But if either of them should Die 
before they are of Age and not having Lawfful Issue they sur- 
vivor is to liav the Share of the Deceased. To my Grandson 


John Humphrey the sum of ten pounds when he arrives at the 
Age of twenty one years, for which Consideration the said 
James Larason by Virtue of these presents hath given, grant- 
ed, Enfeoffed, Released, Conveyed & Confirmed, & by these 
presents doth fully freely & Absolutely Give grant Enfeoff 
Release convey & Confirm unto the said Elijah & David Lara 
son their heirs and Assigns forever All that Plantation or tract 
of Land situated Lyiug & being in the Township of Hopewell 
affo resaid & is Located Butted and Bounded as follows Viz 
Beginning at a Small standing on the East side of Stony 
Brook being a corner to Anne Sextons Land, thence along Sex- 
tons line North forty one Degrees East Fifty three Chains to a 
Stake ; thence North Sixiy Bight Degrees East Nineteen Chains 
to a stake corner to James Hunts Land thence along his Line 
Southerly Seventy Eight Chains to said Hunts corner stake 
thence by Land of Ralph Hunt Westerly Sixteen Chains to a 
Black Oak on Stony Brook thence up the Brook the Several Cor- 
ners thereof to the place of Beginning Containingwitliin the said 
Boundaries Two Hundred & forty three Acres of Land be the 
same more or Dess together with all & Singular the Rights Lib- 
erties, privileges Hereditaments & appurtenances to the Same 
belonging or in anywise appertaining, And all the Estate Right 
title Interest possession Property Claim & Demand Whatsoev- 
er of him the said James Larason or his heirs both in Law & 
Equity of in & to the hereby Given & Granted Land & Premis- 
es. to have and to hold the said two Hundred & forty three 
Acres of Land as above set forth & Described with the Appurte- 
nances Unto the Said Elijah & David Larason & to their heirs & 
assigns, to the only proper Use benefit & behoof of them the 
said Elijah Larason & David their heirs & Assigns forever, to be 
Equally Divided between them according to Quantity and Qual- 
ity. And that the said Elijah Larason & David Larason their 
Heirs & Assigns shall & and may Lawfully Quietly & Peacea- 
bly from time to time & at all times forever hereafter have hold 


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Use Occupy possess & Enjoy the said two Hundred & forty three 
Acres of Land with all the appurtenances Without the Lawful 
Let Suit trouble Molestation or Interruption of him the said 
Janies Larason or his heirs or of any other person or persons 
Whatsoever Claiming the premises from by or Under him Pro- 
vided they do not Divide the Land or Build another House on 
the Premises within five years after my Decease Li Witness 
whereof the said James Larason have hereunto Set his hand & 
Seal the Day & Year above Written. 

N. B. To my Grandson John Humphrey, the sum of ten 
pounds when he arrives at the Age of twenty one years 

Sealed Signed & Executed ) James Larason 

in the presence of $ 

Joseph Moore 

Joab Stout 

Neilli M’Gill 


Jeraz Larason did in 1792. Hiz l>edi wez 
berrid in the ensfhent semeteri* hwidh w©z upon 
an ominous ner the middul ev hiz estet. Up©n 
liiz grev iz a plen freston, upon hwidh J hav 
rnarct, with a chizel, the letterz J. L. At hiz 
fet wez berrid die b©di ©v a sun, 12 jerz old. 
Up©n die lit hand sid ©v hiz grey, llz the bedi 

*The tract en livvich Jemz Larason livd, wuns belegd tu the 
Parc Famili. The bedi ev tfie oldest member ev this famili, 
Rejer Parc, ha cum from Iggland, wez berrid ner the senter ev 
this tract. But the interment ev Rejer Parc’s bedi wez net tile 
beginnii] ev this enshent Semeteri, — oltho it iz yuzi^alli stild the 
Parc-Larason Semeteri. In it, we find a monument with this 
inscripshun : No. 5. 1738. J. II. ej 59. Upen anuther we 
find : Ii. P. ej 91. Did F. A 10. 1755. Upen anuther : 
1754. W. P. 1. S. 2. 


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o v hi z wif. Tbs sit ev her grev iz ©Iso marct 
with a plen Hat frsston. 

Orijinalli, thsz stonz wer not marct — soneg- 
lijent ev ther di^ti ta thar parents wer ©1 biz 
dssendants. Jamz Larason did at tbs aj ev 
ninti thrs ysrz. Until ner biz defh, bs rsmand 
activ, vigorus and dhsrfnl. In biz last daz, bs 
bict forward tu His svent ev biz transizbun 
from biz carsr in an erfhli tabernacul tn a Ilf 
in spiritual form with filosefic cullies, and pa- 
sfhentli and wodhfulli awated biz tun. 


Unto 

Jemz Larason 
and biz wif 
Kszla, 
wer born 


1 Jen, 

2 Andru, 

3 Kejer, 

4 Wily am, 

5 Blija, 

6 David, 

7 Anns, 

8 Elizabeth 

9 Cafhei •in. 


10 Acsa, 


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CHAP TEE V. 

JON, SUN OV J6MZ LARASON 0V STONI BRUC. 

Jon Larason, sun ov Jemz, ov Stoni bruc, 
marrid Meri Pelt un, dot erov Benjamin Peltun, 
hu eej)l a hotel upon die hit, a mil south ov 
Wndzvil, in a hous that stud ner tlie lions in 
hwidh Jon Buitoz non livz Qfter hiz marrij, 
Jon cept tli 8 tavern formerli eept hi hiz fa- 
ther-in-lo. 

Bl wil, dated September 30, 1775, her father, 
Benjamin Peltun, wild the tavern properti tn 
tli 8 wlf ov Jon Larason, provided. she had dhil- 
dren. In ces sfhe did dhlldles, (and she did 
without isThsfh ia ) the pies woz tn desend tn her 
bruther’z sun. Jon Peltun, lna inherited it, 
sold it tn Mozez Cwie. 

Offer the detli ov hiz wlf, Jon livd a liwll in 
the Lee euntri, in X. Y. Snhs&ewentli, az ap- 
perz hi hiz wil, he returnd tn Hopwel, N. J. 

I, John Larason of the Township of Hopewell County of 
Hunterdon State of New Jersey May 8— 1805. Being something 
stricken in years and not so well in health, as usual, but of Sound 
Mind and Memory : God be blessed. Therefore calling to mind 


the nioitality of my body and knowing that it is appointed unto 
all men once to die : Do make this my last Will and Testament 
and as touching such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to 
bless me with in this life. I give and desire in the following man- 
ner namely It is my will that all my debts and funeral expences 
be paid and discharged by my executors hereinafter named. I 
further my will that 1113^ movable estate shall be sold, except ni) r 
bed and bedding and I will and bequeath unto my brother Roger 
Larason all my wearing clothes, and I give unto John Sexton 
ni3 r sister Catrins son $40.00; likewise unto John M’Gee son of 
Nellie .M’Gee. $40 00, and the remainder of my proper! } r with 
my land in the Lake Country Cayuga County I give unto Betsey 
or Elizabeth Larason a daughter of Catherine Manley deceased 
in Somerset County, and it is my will that my estate shall be 
put to use at the discretion of 1113^ executors hereafter named 
until the above named child comes to be of age and I do consti- 
tute and appoint Jacob Stout and Peter Snook to execute this 
ni3 r last Will and Testament and I do utterly evoke all and every 
other Will and Testament, in any wise before this made Testi- 
fying and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and 
testament, in witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal 
the day and year aforsaid. 


John Larason. 


C Andrew Smith 
Witness / George Smith 
( Anna Smith. 


'this Wil W9z | trio veil November 18, 1805. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

ANDRU, SUN 0V JGMZ LARASON OV STONI 
BRUC 

Andru Larason vvez born Februeri 2, 1739. 
He marrid a Mis Gren hu did sun after mar- 
rij. He then marrid Lavlna Severnz hu inher- 
ited a tract ©v land eonsistir) ov about 300 
eeerz, in the t on nsThi j) ov Delawar, counti ov 
Hunterdun, Xeu Jerzi, — about a mil north ov 
Mount 6ri — a part ©v the sed tract bsii) lion 
ond b! Dennis Scene. 

Respect ir) the persunaj ov Andru Larason, 
biz sun, ml grandfather, stated tu ms: 

‘•Ml lather woz a man ov statli apperans — 
dignifld and cemmandig in biz wez. Us woz 
a lit.tul abuv the medium hit, wel proporslhund 
and veri athletic. Hb woz a persun ov feu 
wurdz, — earful and presls in biz spedh. Hwen 
he spoe — and he ©fen spec in public — ol wer 
intent tu her hvvot he had tu se. Rslijusli, lie 
woz a devout episcopalian, — strict, tu die let- 
ter, in ol ths ordinansez and ritijalz ov that 
dhurdh. He woz an ©ffiser in Sant Andru’z 


dhurdh, at Ringoz, N. J., and a fathful attend- 
ant, upon ©1 its appointments. 

Hiz mannerz wer refind; and ol lua wer a- 
round him, instigctivli, hw!l in hiz prezens, at 
lest, deported themselvz accordig tn the rulz 
and ynzajez ov die best sosieti. , 

Az a tedher, he woz strict in compelig obedi- 
ens; and he woz veri egzactig respect ig the wurc 
he assind hiz.pgpilz. He woz a paragon in ol 
that related tn scholarship. Iliz am woz tn el- 
evat, enlarj, refill, ecspand the pgpilz; and in 
develop accgrasi and ])i*aeticalit i. Az an in- 
structor, he woz sucsesfnl. 

In hiz da, bocsig and fensig wer subjects tot 
in scial; and, in thez accomplishments, he woz 
veri efficient.” 

Lavlna Severnz woz a member ov a famili 
hia wuiis figgrd prominent li in the count i ov 
Hunterdun. The famili woz Scodh. Welth, 
lernig and hi birth wer tharz. But ov them, 
ther wer never veri meni; and nou, ov desend- 
ants, hi the narn ov Severnz, $ can find nun.* 
She woz born Februari 17, 1841. 

Upon hiz wit’s estat, Andru settuld; and in 
a log lions, — liwidh tradishun sez, stud not far 
north ov Dennis Scene’s dwelig, assisted bl liiz 

* Lavlna had a bruther Jen lua, wez born March 3, 1733, and 
did Feb., 3, 1818 ; and a sister lrn wez born, Get, 7, 1747, mar- 
rid izac Jensun Me 14, 1771, and did Me 22, 1804. 


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wlf, he began tu tedh a scul hwidh flu risTht az 
loij az he livd. In this scul, ol hiz children wer 
instructed in die brandhez ev lernii)yuzualli tot 
az thi ijz ov accomplishment; and in this scul 
wer rneni prepai d for cellej. Her ml on grand- 
inuther, Mari Wilsun, wezedqceted — olthoher 
on father wgz a tedher; — her her brother Qbra- 
ham preperd for Rutgerz Cellej, at hwidh he 
graduated; and her ol ev her brutherz and sis- 
terz attended scul. 



1 Benjamin, 

Until 

2 Jemz, 

Andru Larason 

3 Mari, 

and 

4 Joij, 

Lavlna Severnz 

5 Andru, 

wer born 

6 Benjamin. 


7 Sara, 


1 Benjamin wez born November 15, 1761. 
lie wgz cild in a res, Jun 9, 1779. The sir- 
cumstansez gv hiz defh ar az felloz: He wgz 
ridig a hors in a res upen a cors bet wen Ser- 
jentsvil and the Dmgcard church, Ner the end 


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ev the cors, a ran broc, the hors left the trac, 
and runnirj betwen tu trez, brot the hed ev the 
rider agenst wun ev the trez with sudh violens 
that the seul w©z brocen, and defh follod in- 
stant li. Hiz renianz wer interd in the Episco- 
pal semeteri, ner Riijgoz, 1ST. J. 


2 Jemz Larason \v©z born November 5, 

1765. He marrid the doter ©v Jar*©}) 

Holcum, bl hum he had flire doterz — LavTna, 
Radhel and Kezla, 

*> 

Lavina marrid Samqel Britten a merdhant 
©v Lambertvil, 17. J., bl hum she had, Jemz, 
Holeum, Fransis and Samuel, ol ©v hum ar 
ded. 

Radhel marrid Jen Vansieul, the sun ev 
Qrun Vansieul, b! hum she had a sun Jen and 
thre doterz. 

Kezla marrid a Carhart hu livd in Meri- 
land. Tha had for children. 

Jemz Larason settuld in the northern part 
©v Hunterdun Count?, K. J. 


3 Mari wez born Jan 13, 1768. She mar- 
rid Wilyam Bes, a tanner, hu bilt the tanneri 




nt Serjentsv.il, and then sold it and hilt a tan- 
neri ner the Old Ston Churdh in this eennti. 
Ther dhildren wer Samuel, Andru, Jen. LavT- 
na, Laor, Jainz, Jozef* Benjamin, Kezia, Wil- 
yarn and Mari. 


4 Jorj wez horn Desember 21, 1770. He 
marrid Cafherin Lambert, doter ov Jen Lam- 
bert, Guvernor ov Neu Jerzi, from 1802 tn 1803, 
bl hum he had Jon, Marla, Lavlna, Jamz and 
Gerslium. He settuld uj)on a tract in Cigwud, 
and upon it remand until the marrij ov biz sun 
Jon, hwen he purdhast a tract ner die Dela- 
vvar, tu mHz belo Lambertvil, J., on hwidh 
he spent hiz old aj. 

He did Jull 11, 1849. Sum vvun in rltig 
about him haz ynzd thez llnz: 

Q saf Company un, and an ezi Fiend; 

Unblemd thru Ilf, lamented in the end. 

Hiz bruther Andru ynzd tu sa: The hit ov 
Jorj’z ambisfhun iz tn hav a vvel tild farm, a 
plenti upon hwidh tn 1 i v, the best bred stoc, 
and tn liv in pes with ol manclnd. 

Ml father telz me : Hwen a hoi, 1 llct tu viz- 
it ml ugcul Jorj and hiz famili. The boiz wer 
a littul llvli; the llct fun; but ugcul Jorj woz 
a veri peculiar man, and a veri ewiet man hu 


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did mudh biznes and lmnduld a grat del gv 
muni. Mudh gv the tlrn he wgz in biznes, az 
partner, with ml father. Sumtlmz, let at n!t y 
hwen we wer in the midst gv a canticGi, ur)cul 
Jorj wud cum horn. Qnt, gv eors, wud be 
gen tn bed. He wud sum find sumfhiij tu et, 
thro deun, upon the liarfh, hiz bag gv coin, sil- 
ver and gold — hwidh bag Gfen contend a larj 
ewontiti, — and bl the sld gv it, with fet tn the 
fir, he. wild stredh himself and slep til mornig. 
Ov cors, after Ugcul cam horn, Giir canticeiz 
sest. Thigz wer cwlet enuf then. 

Catherin Lambert wgz born September 15, 
1774; sfhe did, October 6, 1864. 

Jgh livd out hiz dez gu the Larason homsted 
in Cigwud; Jeraz marrid Emma Serjent, a 
sister tu Uren Serjent, gv Delawar TGiinsThi p, in 
this cGiintiaud had Jorj, Charlz, Mari and Jo- 
zefen. Gersfhum marrid Cornelia Sharp and 
had Catherin, lna marrid Samuel Ege, and 
Emma lna marrid Asfher Ege, hu stil dwel up- 
on the homsted gv diar father. 

Lavlna marrid Samuel Carhart Ilia had wun 
dhlld; Marla marrid Fransis Tornlinsun lna 
had nieiii Children, wun gv hum wgz Charlz, 
wuns die Clere gv Hunterdun Count i, 1ST. J., 
and afterward die Editor gv die Hunterdun 
Democrat. 


5 Andru’s acts and hiz lineaj ar the themz 
ov r the buc tu hvvidh tills scedh iz an appendics. 


6 Benjamin marrid Sara VanZant, bl hum 
he bad tu dhildren — Mari hu marrid Jen Math it 
hu iza mudh respected sitizen ev Bacs Ceunti, 
Pa.; and Wilyam hu settuld in Ohio* 

Benjamin inherited hiz father’z plantasthun 
and upon it dwelt for a hwil; he then muvd 
upon a smol farm in Bucs Ceunti, Pensilva- 
nia. He did ov dizenteri, September 5, 1845, at 
hiz bruther Andru’z. Hiz bedi wez berrid in 
the Bpiscopal grav yard at Riggoz, Neti Jer- 
zi ; it beig the last bedi that wez berrid in that 
anslient semeteri, non so sadli neglected and 
so rapid li becumig obliterated. 


7 Sara wez a tedher. She marrid Robert 
Yalor and settuld upon a lot upon hwidh slhe 
spent her daz, a mil north ov her father’z rezi- 
dens, and a haf mil south ov Yandola’z scul- 
lions. 


Untm 


364 

( Meri, born Jim 16, 1809. 

Sera Larason | Izac, born October 1, 1810. 

& { 

Robert CSTelor j Wilyarn A., born Qpr. 17, 1814. 

i 

wer born [ Febe, 

Meri marrid Theodor Titus and had (Chil- 
dren. Izac marrid a Burroz and had (Children. 
Wilyarn marrid Qmelio Barracand had to (Chil- 
dren, — Meri, hu marrid Asher Wulvertun, and 
Lambert. 


CHAPTER VII. 

ROJER LARASON, SUN OV JCMZ 0V STONI 
BRUC, N8U JERZI. 

Rojer Larason settuld ner Perrivil, on the 
south sld ov the Musconetceg Mount inz, in 
Hunterdun Counti, N. J. Dr. Jon Blen, hiz 
famili fizislhan, yuzd tu relet that Rojer woz a 
thrift! farmer, an intellijent, progresiv, u|>r!t, 
jenerus sitizen hia had plenti ov the hwerwith- 
ol tu enterten hiz gests, tu fed die piar, and tu 
giv hiz (Children a start in the vvurld. 


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Rejer servd, under Captin Fillips, in ths 
Revolqsfhunari wor. 


1 


Unt la 

Rejer Larason 
and hiz wrf 
Lenar 
vver born 


2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 


Jamz 

Jon 

Thsodorus 

Margaret 

Elizabeth 

Rsbecca 

Gather in 

Redhel 


1 Jamz settuld upon a larj farm ner ths 
Min Hoi Methodist Churdh in Bethlehem Tonn- 
sfhip, Hunterdun, Counti, 17. J. He woz ths 
father ov Jon R. Larason, ov Bethlehem, N. J. 
Hs did, in 1885, at ths aj ov 91 ysrz. 


2 Jon, a slim, tol man, woz a carpenter. 
Hs marrid Catherin Cwic, doter ©v Qbraham 
Cwic, hu woz ths sun ov Jacob Cwic ov 
Wertsvil, Hunterdun Counti, 17su Jerzi. Hs 


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settuld upon a let, at Blac Point, at thsconflu- 
ens ov ths Nssfhanie with ths Raritan River. 
Subsscwentli, hs hot a farm south ev Wertsvil, 
upon hwidh hs did at ths aj ov 90 ysrz. Hiz 
bodi woz berrid at Wertsvil, Nsu Jerzi. 

Jon had wun dhild, Gbraham, hu, it iz stat- 
ed, marrid a Woldron b! hum hs had wun 
dhild — idiotic — hu did erli. 

Qbraham woz a member ©v ths Baptist 
Churdh at Wertsvil. Ids woz veri ebul in 
prar, a veri uprit and a veri inflgenshal crist - 
yan jentulman. 

“Hiz wif woz an old fashund woman, nst 
and clsn, hu, for 25 ysrz, wor a woful bonnet, 
that woz a thig til bs beheld bi ol hu attended 
dhurch at "Wertsvil.” 


3 Thsodorus woz a tsdher. Hs woz veri 
athletic, and woz far famd, in erli lif, az a bocs- 
er. With hiz cuzin Andru, ths drover, hs 
went tu ths Lac Cuntri tu hwi|) out, az tha 
frazd it, a gag ov banditti hu, sum tim bsfor, 
had plotted tu rob Andru. (Ss pajez 86 tu 
10d ©v this volipn). Tha accomplish t thar un- 
dertacig, veri much tu ths gratiticaslhun ov 
both, it iz rslated. But, hwil staig at a farm 
lious, hwil Andru woz collect ig hiz drov, Ths- 


odorus notist sum cwelitiz in vvun ev tbs do- 
terz ev ther host that a we el in him smosdiunz 
that met a rsspens from the med. Tu help 
Andru horn with hiz drov,hs cem bac tu Nsu 
Jerzi. But, the drov heir) sold, bs bad Andru 
gud In, seiij that hs wnd non go tn the Lees 
tu tee eer ev that lam that dwelt in the hens 
ev ther host. Q ysr hens, hwen Andru necst 
vizi ted the Lee Cuntriz, in ewest ev sfhsp, hs 
found Thsodorus wedded tu the doter ev Ihs 
host with hum Andru had so efen sted hwll 
cellectir] sfhsp. The host, an old aecwentans 
ev Andru, wez wun Updlc hu had migreted 
from Hopvvel, Merser Ceunti, iL J. 

The feiloig, hvvidh iz a part ev a letter ritten 
b! the Rev. Jen Larason, sun ev Thsodorus 
Larason, tu Jorj II. Larason, givz a veri sat- 
isfaetori account ev Thsodorus Larason and 
biz dssendants : 

Rijberri, Desember 22nd 1888. 

Tu Jorj H. Larisun, M. d. 

MI der trend : — Yurz ev Desember 7tli iz be for ms — a mor 
than welcum letter. * * * * wil anser sum ev the cwest- 

yunz yu wislit. 

Thsodorus Larisun born ©gust 26th 1773. Slizabefh Updic 
born Jull 29tli 1785. Thsodorus Larisun wez marrid sun after 
hs com frem Jerzi. The wer marrid November 27th 1802 
Ther first, Anna, born Gctober 31st 1803 ; Jeceb Larisun born 
Dssember 26tli 1805 ; Jen Larisun born Janrjeri 17th 1808 ; Lips 
Larisun born March 13th 1810. 

The first winter after father and mu ther wer marrid hs tot 


scul in tile neburliud ev Lllises, Tempcins Ceunti, N. Y, i 
thigc 1 1 8 never tot after that He then went en forti ecerz ev 
land grandfather gev tu muther, livd ther til the sprig ev 1811. 
He then went en an old farm en the uther sid ev the Lee. The 
fever wez fejig ther — she tuc it and did. Father then went in 
the armi, servd tii termz. Hiz children wer tacen bac tu HJises 
amug muther’z foes, sted ther until the sprig ev 1821 he tuc a 
farm in Wisecs, Bi ad ford Ceunti, get hiz famili together. In 
the spring ev 24 we went tu Jacsun, Tioga Ceunti, Pa. 

Father stud wel in sosieti at LLlises and visiniti. Ther herig 
he had gen in die wudz Inver the land wez gud and cliep — with- 
in les than 50 mHz, it started a wish tu veu the cuntri. The 
Updics had becum lupnerus and rather creuded. Fiv ev muth- 
er*z brutherz livd tiler. The must ol cum tu veu the cuntri. 
That led utherz and over 60 different men sted with us that sum- 
mer veuig land. The teun ev Jacsun had bin settuld parti i sev- 
eral yerz befor, but bi pur pepul jeneralli. But the cold sezunz 
ev abeut 1816 and 1819 discurejd them. The left tiler littul 
pezzeshunz and lieuzez. Ten empti heuzez stud in the nebur- 
hud. The land izgud. In a veri short tim the hoi neburliud 
wez settuld — mostli bi enterprizig men. It iz neu a rich cuntri. 

We had no lieusceper tile first summer — had tu du euron cuc- 
ig and for ol the land veuerz ; but in the spring ev 1825 father 
marrid a wido Dui. 

Father livd with hiz last wif until March 1857 and did en the 
farm liwer he began in 1824, and wez berrid in the Jacsun Sem- 
eteri. 

Anna, father’z oldest wez marrid tu Cornelius Culbog in 
the sprig ev 1822 and did in the sprig ev 1835. She left a sun, 
Herman neu sumhwer in tile far west and wun doter, Qmelia 
Rijwe, neu livig in Wisecs, Bradford Ceunti — we fhige a veri 
fin wuman. Jeceb, mi bruther, marrid Elizabeth Gre. Hiz 
first wif left him with fhre doterz — no sunz. Wun ev them 


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never marrid — did. The tu mairid Kverets— ar nen both widoz 
in gud sircumstansez. 

Ltps marrid Henrietta . Slit left liim with tu. chil 

dren. Tlia ar both ded. He then marrid Meriet Shappi. Li^is 
did in Rpril I860 — left her with fhre doterz—ol liviq in Elmira. 
Hiz last wif did Desember 17tli 1888. 

Jen Larisun marrid Mari Huntli, Me 15tli 1828. 

Meri Huntli wez born in Clienang, Jun 17th 1805. The livd 
tugether until October 20tli 1886, hwen she did levii) a famili ev 
sics sunz and filer wivz, seventen grand-cliildren and eten 
gret-grand-cliildren — ol in gud lielfh. She wez ©1 a gud wu- 
man cud be tu a man. 

Our beiz liv : 

Theodorus, in Rijberri, 

Oscar, in Cetun, StuJben Ceunti, Neu Yore, 

Lqjs, in Addisun, Stqben Ceunti, Neu Yore, 

Levi, in Elmira, 

Heras, in Rijberri, 

Devid, in Rijberri. 

Mi best respects tu yu ol. 

Jen Larisun. 

The ©fhor ov the abuv letter iz a veri re- 
spectabul and a veri wurthi sitizen hum ©1 hu 
no him, venerat. He iz an elder, ov hi standii), 
in the Frewil Baptist Churdh. 


4 Margaret marrid a man buz nem wez 
Fitdh. 


5 Slizabefh marrid a Mac Gil hu went tu 
Ohio. 


7 Cafherin marrid Band Bigler lua woz the 
chef man in die foundig ev tiis Baptist Churdh 
ev Manzfeld, Warren Counti, N. J. 


8 Radhel marrid a Cos. 


CHAPTER VIII. 

WILYaM LARASON, SUY OY J6MZ 0V STONI 
BRUC. 

Wilyam wez born Jamtari 24, 1741. He 
did October 21, 181(3. Fransina Blacwel biz 
wlf, woz born 1747; did November 30, 

1811. 

Wilyam settuld upon a tract on the south- 
west sld ov Stoni Bruc, adjoinig, bl die norfh- 
est corner, tu the sou di-west corner ov die 
tract on hwicfh hiz father, Jemz Larason, livd. 
The tract woz wuns ond In hiz wlf’s father; it 
iz non ond bl die wido ov Sam gel Titus. He 


did 9 v hart dizez, — fel ded hwll fhreshig in tbs 
barn. It izstil told that the bedi sweted hvven 
it woz berrid. 

Wilyam servd, under Captin Fillips, in the 
Revolqshun. He woz a member ov the Bap- 
tist Churdh, at Hopvvel, N. J. 

Bi wil, be devlzd that, in cas hiz sun did 
dhlldles, hiz homsted sfond be divided ecwalli 
bet wen hiz doter, and her tu doterz, hum sflie 
had bi Jon Parc. 


Until 

Wilyam LarasOn 

& 

Fransino Blacwel 
wer born 


1 Cornelius 
| 2 Pamela 


1 Cornelius woz born Feb. 14, 1767. He 
did Jnn 11, 1851. He marrid TJre Hunt, hu 
woz born Jail 14, 1772; did Jan. 19, 1850. 
For a tlm after the detli ov hiz fattier, he dwelt 
upon the homsted. Subsecwentli, he purdhast 
a tract ner Marshalz Corner, 1ST. J. on hwidh 
he did dhlldles. 


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2 Pamela Larason wez horn Jim 3, 1779. 
She did Qpril 5, 1839. She marrid Jon Parc 
sun ov Benjamin Parc, ho vvoz the sun ov 
Wilyam Parc, lua wez the sun ev Rejer Parc 
ov Iggland. Tha settuld on a tract in Sus- 
secs Count i, 27. J. 

Jen Parc wez a drover, and speculator. 
Ilwll on biznes at Merieta, Ohio, he contract- 
ed fever, ov hwidh, in a feu daz, he did, and 
woz berrid be for tldigz ov hiz ilnes redht biz 
famili in Neu Jerzi. Hiz bodi woz brot horn. 

Tha had to dhildren — Elizabeth Larason ho 
woz born Jamjari 18, 1802; and Radhel Ro- 
lan, ho wez born Desember 5, 1804. 

Elizabeth L. marrid Qsa Titus (born Ogust 
28, 1798,) ov Hopwel, ~N, J. For a t Ini, tha 
livd ner Troi, Miami Counti, Ohio. Subse- 
cwentli tha purdhast and settuld upon the. 
tract on hwidh Wilyam Larason formerli 
dwelt, in Hopwel, Merser Counti, 17. J. 

This tract ov 216 acerz, at $36.00 per acer, 
Mr. Titus hot at a public sal, in Desember, 
1851. 


Pamela L., born Sept., 2, 1820. 
Jon Parc, born Me 4, 1822. 
Wily am 11., born Me 27, 1824. 
Rebecca, born Qgust 20, 1828. 
Jen Marla, born Nov. 6, 1831. 
Jorj W., born Dss. 5, 1835. 
Ruth An, born Feb. 11, 1839. 
Redhel An, born Feb. 11, 1839. 
Catheri n 8., born Sept. 11, 1842. 
Samuel B., born Qpril 28, 1845. 

Pamela marrid Job Lemig and settuld in 
Merser Connti,N. J ; Jon P. marrid Slizabeth 
Smith; W. H. marrid Marla Swager, the liv 
in Indiana; Rebecca marrid Henri Gerhart; 
Jen M. marrid Jemz 1 1 il and settuld on a 
farm in Hopwel Tounsfhip; Jorj marrid Bel 
Cig — the liv in Indiana; Ruth A. marrid Jon 
Seed; Redhel A. marrid 6sa Shepherd ovRig- 
goz, N. J.; Cafherin 8. marrid J. Britton Hi 1 
ov Hopwel, N. J ; Samiiel B. marrid Sera E. 
Blacwel. 


Untu 

8. L. Parc 
and 

Qsa Titus 
wer born 


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Upon the 25fh ev Janueri 1823, Radhel R. 
Parc marrid Steven Titus, hm wez horn Jan- 
iiari 26, 1800. 

Steven Titus settuld upon a farm upon Hie 
north sld ev the rod that ecstendz from Wudz- 
vil tu Hopwel, about a haf mil from the brij 
that spanz the Stoni Bruc. It iz the farm 
wuns ond hi Devid Larason. 


Unto 

Rcdhel R. Parc 
and 

Steven Titus 
wer born 


Wm. L., born Mardh 17, 1824 
Sliz. H., born Jan. 20, 1826. 
Clmrlz J., born Ms 7, 1828. 
Frans. H., born Sept. 3,1830. 

< Snos, born Sept. 15, 1832. 
Henri B., born Feb. 13, 1836. 
Pamela, born Des. 10, 1837. 
Jemz T., born Oct. 17, 1840. 
Cornelius, born Oct. 17, 1840 


Qfter ttie deth ©v Jon Parc, Pamela Lari- 
sun marrid Jonathan Hunt,, ev Hopwel, If. J., 
hi hum 3be had a doter Fransina, hia marrid 
Charlz Jiael, ov Hopwel. N 7 . J., bi hum sfhe 


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had a sun, Wilyam Lara son Juel, hu marrid 
Carri M. Scilman, (a sister tu the; wlf gv Ralf 
Ege,) b! hum lie had a sun Charlz Scil- 
man, M. D., and a doter Mari, hu marrid Juj 
Jozef Bold win gv Pelatca, Flerida. 

Qfter tli 8 defh gv Charlz Juel, Fransina 
marrid Steven Blacwel gv Ilopwel, X. J., bl 
hum sfhe had fhrg sunz, — - Jonathan Hunt, gv 
Trentun; Charlz B.. gv Hopwel, 27. J.; and 
Willis B., gv Xeu Yore Siti. 


CHAPTER IX. 

8LlJa LARASON, SUN GV JGMZ GV STONI BRUC. 

Blija Larason marrid Elenor, doter gv Jemz 
St Gut. She wgz born, 1715. Thar dhildren 
wer — Cafherin, hu marrid Wm. Marshal, and 
Blizabefh hu marrid Wilyam Cul. Both gv 
tiiez familiz muvd tu Reclland, II. 

Az wil be lernd hi egzaminii) Hie matter gh 
puj 352, Blija and David gat the homsted gv 
thar father, Jamz Larason. Upon tliis tract 
Blija spent liiz daz. 

Gad tilth, gud. fensez, gild bildigz, dhois 
stac, ecstensiv ordhardz and an abundans gv 


everidiii) that a vvi-1 manajd farm cud prodqs 
woz hiz porshan* Iliz vvlf woz sed tu be a 
medel ev indastri and frugaliti. With her on 
handz, the sg, she planted die trez ov wun ev 
the larj appal ordhardz that gi u tn be die ad- 
mi rash an ev ©1 liu past the Homsted. 

Sllja woz ecstensivli engajd in the distila- 
shan ev Appal Brandi; and in mTnig for sil- 
ver and copper. 


CHAPTER X. 

DGVID, Sax GY JGMZ LARASON GV STOlS T I 
BRUC. 

David Larason wgz born Maicfli 8, 1757. 
He marrid Jerusha Smith liu wgz a sister tu 
Dr. Charlz Smith gv Neu Branzwic, Neii Jer- 
zi, and an ant tu Ecs-Guvernor Olden ovNeu 
Jerzi. Tha settald apon the farm non ond and 
Gccupld bl the wido gv Steven Tltas. He did 
November 29, 1800. Hiz wil apperz on pa] 
335. 


Unto 

David Larason 

& 

Jerostha Smith 
wer horn 


1 Jonathan, 

2 Gm us, 

< 

3 Charhz, 

4 8noc, 


1 Jonathan woz horn September 1, 1781 ; 
li8 did in 1863. He settuld in Hamiltun Coun- 
ti, Ohio, in 1807. He had at dhildren, — for 
heiz and for girlz. 0v the sunz, fhre did erli 
in Uf. He had a doter, Jeroslha, (horn in 
1800, and did (Joust 3, 1879), marrid JSTathan 
B. Iluf ho did Mardh 23, 1861; — Hanna, (horn 
in 1802 and did 6pril 10, 1862), marrid Jeraz 
Merrel ov Fragclin Count i, Indiana; 6m us, 
(horn Jnl! 13, 1804), llvz in Rlli Tonnsfhip, 
Butler Ceunti, Ohio; 8l!za A., (horn Jam^a- 
ri 2, 1811), marrid Wilyam Luvet ho did in 
1878, and Nan si S., (horn September 26, 1818 
and did in 1863), lna marrid Jon Sater. 

The dhildren ov 8llza Luvet ar — Martha J. 
ho marrid H. G. Soard, “ho iz blest with 
welth and wundhlld;” Emma A., ho marrid 
A. Hoi, “ho iz ridh;” Cati, ho marrid A. 
Shafer, a farmer in Frnrjclin Counti, Indiana; 
Jarnz L., ho livz in Omaho, NTeb., and ho onz 


several fheuzandz ©v ecerz ©v hmd in that stet ; 
Haiti, hia marrid a persun hiaziiam iz Rlli, ©v 
Hamiltun C©unti, Indiana; and Alfred Qgus- 
tus, hia iz a fizislhan, in 8tun, Prebul Ceunti, 
Ohio. 

Q farther account ©v this veri prosperus 
f'amili apperz in the felloii), hwidli iz a part ©v 
a letter addrest, bl 81iza A. Luvet, tu Dr. J. 
H. Lari son: 

Neu $ wil giv yu a liistori ev mi Father’/ lif. Hwen he cam 
tu this stetlie beta tract ev land and settuld en it, hwen the 
cuntri wez a vast wildernes He settuld in Hamiltun Ceunti, 
Colren Teunsliip, 12 mi.z north ev Sinsinnati. He clerd a farm 
and livd en it over fifti yerz. He gru up with the cuntri and be- 
cem welfhi. He brot liiz children up en the sem farm and gev 
ecli wun a handsum fortrpi. Ther wez but abeut 1100 inhabit- 
ants in Sinsinnati liwen be landed tiler, and he livd tu se the 
wildernes blessum az die roz Mi Father wez a veri re- 
spectabul, enerjetic man and a man that held meni effisez ev 
trust. He had enemiz and wez beluvd bi ol. Mi Father and 
Mu ther kept lieus tuge tiler 64 yerz. He had the misfortipi tu 
brae liiz lim hwen be wez 67 yerz old and woct with c.anz for 
15 yerz, he wez olso veri mucti afflicted with rumutizum in biz 
old ej. He livd and did at the lieus ev liiz sun liwer lie and liiz 
wif went tu be tecen car ev. Mi Muther livd lu be 90 yerz old. 
Mi Father and Muther wer both Baptists He wez an Elder ev 
die baptist church for 45 yerz, and in politics he wez a democ rat, 
lie ol die rest ev the Larisunz tiiat if ever nip He wez twis- 
drafted in the servis ev liiz Cuntri in the wor ev twelv. 

The Netiian Dree thatyu spoc ev wez mi Father’/ Step-Fa til- 
er. Hemuvd tu Lecsingtun, Centuei, liwer he did. Mi Grand 


mother agen marrid David Steut ev Lecsingfun. she ©Iso did in 
Centuci. f wish this had bin brot up in miFather’z da, he cud 
hav given yuol the in forme shun yu cud havwisht for, he weza 
man ev gret memori. He cud hav told yu ol abeut eur Projen- 
itorz. Thez wer ol men that held effisez under the Cig, wer ©Iso 
Mcircwisez in Denmarc ev nobul famili. Mi Father sed liiz 
Grandfather yuzd tu tel him abeut liiz frendz in Denmarc, and 
he ©Iso tuc gret interest in telig liiz children ev liiz Ansestors, 
* so mi Bruther and he sed this vvez correct for he had efen 
herd liiz Father toe ev it. Jemz L&risun’z father-in 1© (Mr. 
Parcs) found a silver min liwil diggig a post liol. He tuc the 
silver eut tuc it tu a blac smith’s sliep and melted it and he 
found it tu be pgr silver. The farm liwer he found the silver, 
he lmd hot and pad for, tiler cam anuther clam, he wud net tel 
liwar the min wez, for he wislit Jamz Larisun tu hi the farm. 
Befor he had tim tu bi the farm Parcs tuc suddenli sic and did, 
so lie never told liwar it wez. Gfter his defh he bot the farm, 
he wez ©lwaz diggig for the min but never found it Jamz 
L. mad a wil and entald it tu the fifth jenerasliun if it wez ever 
feund. Mi Father sed that $ w r ez the fifth jenerasliun. If yu 
serch the record z yu wil find it in the wil. 

* am a Baptist in prinsipul ; so ar ol mi Father’z famili. Rejer 
Larisun had tu. doterz did in Ohio. Margaret— Mrs, Fitch — 
did 22 yerz ago in Butler Ceunti, ajd 97 yerz. Her doter iz liv- 
ig in Hamiltun 89 yerz ev aj. Iiebeci did en the littul Miami 
River ajd 90 yerz ; she had wun sun Jen McGlettun. 

If yu can get the histori ev the Steuts it wil giv yu a grat del 
ev informashun. J so it wuns. The Larisunz and Steuts inter- 
marrid so veri much. 

Mi granddoter (Jenni D. Luvet) and miself liv her, we ar 
cepig lieus alon. $ am wel provided for. 

Neu S thige 5 hav given yu ol the informashun that i can, if 
i can giv yu mor >£ wil wiligli du so. It iz net ritten in eni or- 


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di r at ©1, i just rot it az S fh©t it up. * wish yu sucses in yur 
underiGcig and wild be plezd tu resev wun [hue] frem yu hvven 
yu get it finislit. 

i wud lie tu her frem yu agen sun. 

tf reman yur Cuzin, 

81iza A. Luvet. 

This letter, ©ltho it haz bin in die liandz ev 
Dr. Larisun for 12 yerz, wez not non tu ms, 
until ol this velum t lint presedz the 370 pej 
lmrl bin printed. Az the reder wil notis, a stet- 
ment in this letter infbrmz us hu the wTf ev 
Jeinz Larason, ev Stoni Bruc, vvez, — that she 
wez the doter ev Rejer Parc, ev Iygland, hu 
did in 1755, ejd 91 yerz. 

Her stetment tu die centre ri, net withstand- 
ip, her letter streyfhenz me in the nosfhyn diat 
Jemz Larason, ev Stoni Bruc, iz net die sun 
ev Jen Larason, the Den. It sernz, die irior 
prebabul, diat he, thru Wilyam Larason, ev 
Hopwel, hu iz the sem with Wilyam Larason, 
ev Neu Brunzwic, me be die grandsun ev 
Jeinz Larason, the sun ev Jen, the Den, hu, 
with utherz, from 1690 tu 1720, cem frem Ley 
Band and settuld in Ilopwel, Neu Jerzi. 
HePz Histori stets that veri meni ev thoz hu 
drst settuld Hopwel, cem frem Jameca, Ley 
Band, Neu Yore. Qldio, no hwer hav we 
feund biz nem upon the erli recordz, Jeinz 
Larason, sun ev Denisb Jen, me hav cum with 


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thez erli settlerz, mad liiz bom ner Stoni Bruc 
and l)8cum tbs father ov Wilyam. ov Neil 
Brunzwic. Az abuv stated, upon a tacs list, 
for Ilopwel Tounsfhip, in 1722, apperzthe nem 
9v Wilyam Larason ; ui)en anuther tacs list 
mad for tbs sam Tennsliip, for 1753, oldio we 
dia not find die nam ov Wilyam Larason, ap- 
perz the nam ov Jamz Larason, bu iz assest 
2s. Id., bwidh sfhoz that, in 1753, a Jamz 
Larason ond landz in Hopwel, — 12 yerz be for 
the purdhas ov die Larason homsted, ov Stoni 
Bruc. 

The letter iz from an elderli lad i, ritten, az 
<fhe stats, entlrli from memori. If, in herstat- 
ment, slie mistacs Jamz Larason, her grat- 
grand father, for Jamz Larason, her grat, grat, 
scrat-srrandfather, sfhe commits an error far les 
o’i’os than meni bav, hta bav stated tu me, about 
thar grandfather’z famili, fhiijz diat dia fhot 
vver facts, — fhirjz, oltbo die record z priav them 
tn be fols, dia fhot no wun cud gansa. 

The Rev. Jorj Hal, d. d., in “Q Histori ov 
the Old Prezbiterian Coijgregasfbun ov ‘die 
Pepul ov Madenhedand Hopwel, ? ” ~N. J., dat- 
ed Jull 2, 187(5, stats that Rojer Parc ov Ii)- 
gland, purdhast, Qpril 1697, ev Tomas Revel, 
ajent for the West Jerzi Sosieti, 400 acerz ov 
land at Wissamenson, “north sld ov Stoni 


Bruc.” Qbout the sc in tlrn, meni utherz bar- 
gind for landz ov Tomas Revel. But, az Tom- 
as Revel had net a rlt tu grant titulz gv landz, 
log after impru vnients bad bin mad upon thez, 
the desendants gv the erli settlerz vver ejected 
from thar pezzesihunz. The Parc desendants, 
litigated the cas, but tha wer defeted. (Se 
Hal’z Histori ; olso Smith’s Histori gv N. J.) 

It happend that at the sal gv the landz from 
hwidh the Parces vver ejected, David Stout pur- 
dhast that part gv the tract that adjoinz Stoni 
Brnc, and, in a fen daz after, sold it tu Jarnz 
Larason. This iz the losip and the purdhas 
tu hwidh Mrs. Luvet referz. 


2 Qinus Larason woz born Mg 7, 1784; he 
did, in Prebel Counti, Ohio, in 18d9. He had 
tu doterz 


3 Charlz Larason woz born Jull 24, 1793; 
he did in Cas Counti, Indiana, in 1841. He 
had twelv dhildren. 


4 Snoc woz born November 2, 1796; he did 
in Sinsinnati, Ohio, in 1865. He had dire dhil- 
dren. 


CHAPTER XL 


ANN8, DOTER 0V J6MZ LARASON 0V STOOT 
BRUC. 

Amis Larason W0z born Febrmeri 11, 1743. 
She marrid Jered Seestim* liu “in ye olden 
tlrnz” W 0 z a man ©v indqens in die Connti ©v 
Hunterdun, N. J. At vvun tlm, 1785, be woz a 
Juj ©v Hie Oort ©v Hunterdun Ceunti. In 
1778, he w©z a member ©v the Lejisletqr ©v 
Neu Jerzi. He olwez transacted a gret del 
©v biznes and w©z regarded o rellabul man. 

Az a farmer, he ecseld hiz neburz jeneralli, 
in ol clndz ©v impriavments — in bain — hwidh 
w©z immens for thoz erli tlmz — in fensez, ma- 
sfheneri, st©e &c., &c. 

*lTpen the old documents, tiiis nem iz Sexton. Leter, die de- 
sendants speld thar nem Saxton. 


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Until 

Anns Larason 
and 

Jared Secstun 
wer bom 


1 J 011 

2 Sera 

3 Acsa 

4 Margaret 

5 Wilyam 

6 Bllja 

7 Anns 


Jared Secstun did hwen about 50 ysrz old. 
Qfter biz defli, Anns Larason marrid Benja- 
min Parcs, sun ©v Wilyam Parcs, hia woz His 
sun ©v Rojer Parc,* ©v Iijglaud. Ths bediz 
©v ol thsz individual wer bevrid in His an- 
sflhent Parc-Larason Semsteri hwidh w©z nsr 
ths senter ©v Jamz Larason’z liomsted. 

Benjamin Parcs w©z a widoer Ilia had cfhil- 
dren hwen hs marrid Anns Larason. Hs livd 
upon a farm, a mil and a haf north-west ©v 
Hopwel — latli ond In Gmus Seed. Anns 
Parcs, a veri jsnial old ladi, did about 1835, 
at His rezidens ©v her grandsun, Wilyam Parcs 
Secstun. Shs w r ©z a jensalojist and a saj huz 

*0n tite old decrements, the nem iz spelt Parke, a feu jener- 
esliunz later r die spelt it Parkes and Parks. 


sairyz, vvitti and wTz, wer far famdand arcwot- 
ed tu this de. 

Until [ 

Anns Larason | 1 Radhel, born Mar. 17,1777. 

& \ 

Benjamin Parc | 2 Anns, born Qg. 3, 1778. 

I 

wer born [ 


2 Anns mar rid Adam Cireendol. 

From this lln dssended Jorj Cireendol, M. D., 
hu woz lest at ss (ths vessel rect nsr Cap 
Horn) about 1857. 


CHAPTER XII. 

SLIZOBETH, DOTER OV JRMZ LARASOX OV 
STONI BRUC. 

Blizabefh marrid Qrun Runyan hu settuld 
upon ths upper woterz ev Stoni Bruc, and 
theron bilt a so-mil. Ths first mil woz bilt 


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about 1760. It stud a feu yardz sst ov the 
brij that spanz the rivulet, about a haf mil 
abuv the old mil that iz foliij in ruinz at the 
corner hwer the rod that ecstendz north and 
south acres the mount in, niets the rod that ecs- 
tends up the rivulet and so on tu Ho]>wel. 

The sellar wol ov the hens eccupTd bl Qrun 
Runyan and Elizabeth Larason iz stil vizibul, 
upon the lit bagc ov the rivulet ner the brij that 
spanz the strein. Qbout the visiniti ov this 
piss, the Runyanz stil ligger; and Runyanz 
so-mil haz bin a landmarc bl hwidh the travel- 
er from Hopwel tu Amwel haz sterd hiz we 
for 140 yerz, at the lest. 


Unto 

Elizabeth Larason 
and 

Grun Runyan 
wer born 


1 Andris 
'2 Jon 

3 Grun 

4 Acsa 


The desendants ov Elizabeth Runyan or 
veri nipnerus. In erli tlmz, the Runyanz wer 
prominent sitizenz, — aetiv in ol die aflerz that 
tended tu the development ov sentral Neu 


Jerzi. Ther prejeni ar mimerus and scatterd 
over almost, if net cwlt, the hoi wurld — a wan- 
derii), thrift!, activ, pusfhig, prosper us fa mil i ga 
foes wer the Runyanz, hia mec themsel vz yns- 
ful hwerever die ar. The prezent Chansellor 
ev the Stet ev USTexi Jerzi, Jeneral Run van, iz 
vvun ev this gret host. 

Bl the desendants ev Grun Runyan, the so- 
mil vvez cept goig until a feu yerz ago, hwen 
the vvudz had bin so cut awe that the biznes 
ev soip iz no mor. 

Tu this de, die desendants ev Grun Runyan 
lTc a hors; and I no several ev them, lua ar net 
onli gad horsmen, but ar so fend ev a hors 
that die depiiv themselvz ev meni ev die cu in- 
flate ev lTf tn on and yuz vvun. In die handz 
ev a Runyan, no hors iz illi treted. 


CHAPTER XIII. 

CATHERIN, DOTER GV JeMZ LARASON GY 
STONI BRUC. 

Catherin marrid Jen Secstun, Escwlr. Re- 
spect it) her famili I am net wel informd. Her 
huzband vvez a Justis ev the Res. The had, 
at the lest, wun dhlld. 


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CHAPTER XIV. 

ACSQ, DOTER 0Y jaMZ LARASON OV STONI 
BRUC. . 

Acsa man-id Jon Humfri lua livd upon a 
farm alog tbs left s!d ov tbs rod azyu go from 
Wndzvil tu Peningtun, If. J., a haf mil south 
ov Wudzvil. The pies iz non ond bl wun 
Samuel Lambert. 

Jon Humfri vvoz a farmer, and gamster. 
vvoz a noted brsder ov horsez for rasig, — the 
sport so fain us in hiz da. At the Log Hand 
rasez, feu horsez had better recordz than thoz 
brot thar bl Jon Humfri. Upon bettig at ras- 
ez, he iz sed tu hav bin wun ov die wildest 
that ever attended a ras. 

Bl Aesa Larason he had wun dhlld — Jon, hu 
did in Yore Stat, at the aj ov ( ,)3. 

Jon vvoz az fond ov rasig and ov uther ruf 
sports az hiz father. In athletics, he woz a 
madh for the best. ProfesJhunalli, he woz a 
trailer ov horsez, and a rider at rasez. Dqrig 
the rasig sezun, hiz biznes ce])t him at Log 
Hand; dqrig the remander ov the yer, he went 


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hwarever biz profesfhun cold him — from eni 
part 9v tbs Yunited Stats and Canada tu eni 
uther part ©v thez cuntriz. 

Upon t\ 18 grav ston (in thg gray yard upon 
Half Egg’s farm,) that marcs the final restir) 
plas ©v thg 1 >©d i ov Acsa Larason ar thez 
wurdz: 

a Tu thg frunt ©y this llz tbg b©di ©v Acsa 
Hurnfri, thg wlf ©v Jon Humfri, bu dg parted 
this Ilf, 11 tli ©v Qpril, 1777, ajd 24 ygrz. 


Hare from thg turn a dolful sound 
Min grz, attend thg crl! 

Cum! livig men and vgn thg ground 
Hwer yu must sfhortli ll!” 

Tradisliun stats that thg ston (a plan frgston) 
barirj tlig inscripshun, wez tacen from her huz- 
bandz farm, drest and letterd and plast upon 
her gray hi her father. Thg wuremansfliip telz 
a wurthi tal ©y thg nobul barig and pensiv 
trat ©y him hid dezind and rot thg monument. 


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APPEND ICS B. 

CHAPTER XV. 

TH8 FAMILI 0V J0N WILSUN, 0V AMWEL 
T0UNSHIP, HUNTEEDUN COUNTY, N8U JERZ1. 

In erli timz, ther com from Irland, tu Qmer- 
ica, a yug man tu tsdh scul. Hi z nem woz 
Jon Wilsun. Hs landed in Xsu Yore. But 
havig proclivitiz for a cwlet, rural HI, lie wend- 
ed hiz we westward thru the spars villejez 
and ths scatterd hamlets ov hi 8 Jerziz, until 
hs rsdht ths settulments that wer then formig 
in ths Tounship ov Arnwel, in ths Count i ov 
Hunterdun. 

In this gudli district, hs found employment 
in hiz cfhozen fsld ov lebor. Aceordigli, in ths 
valli ov ths Alecseeen, not far from ths senter 
ov ths south sloj) ov Saudi Bij, hs began ths 
wurc ov hiz humbul colig. And, az ths “Fets 
dscred” ther cam tu hiz scul, a girl, ov Frendh 
dssent, hum the cold Jenni Dersmer. 

Houever wldli, hi fizsc, innet spirit and 
mannerz, ths Irish me apper tu bs separeted 


391 


from the French, befor Jenni had fulli gron 
intia wumanhud, she cesperienst a pasfhun for 
her tsdher lnvidh awacend a resiprocatip pash- 
un in the bwzum ©v Jon Wilsun. Az tlm 
proseded, ffie awacenip pashun and ffie pashun 
aweeend stronger gria; cortship follod; ths 
wortnip, festerii), jsnial wezev the polit French 
girl, aroiizd, vi vi fid and led 011 tu a development 
©v ths colder, mor sedat, mor pensiv element, 
peculiar ta dogmatic, stern Jrisfh blud, — until 
hvven apart, unrest, wel nl unbarabul, rued 
the dul ©arz werili pas, and thez legip solz sec a 
cpr for ther ilz in the matrimonial relashun. 

But ther wer difficultiz tu overcum. He 
wez pur; her parents wer rich. Q humbul 
ploddig Ilf had bin hiz; a mad ef fashun she — 
regelir) in ol that a voluptpus welffii Frendh- 
man in a up cuntri cud suppll. Tha semd tu 
be rneinberz ©v ecstremz in the soshal balans. 
But, luv and tact wil surmount the gretest ©v 
difficultiz; and Jen and Jenni wer not wontip in 
ffiez ol-potent elements. And tu the wurc ©v 
u recensllig the old foes” both |>lld ffiar enerjiz 
and ffiar soil. Progres w©z mad; and, in ffie 
cors ©v tim, az ffie gud old custum reewlrd, 
Jon aset Gbraham Deremer for hiz doter. 

The voluptpus and ez-luvip Frenchman had 
misgivipz respect it) ffie proprieti ©v hiz doter in 
^hoip a wilipnes tu attempt ffie se ©v lif in a 


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bare rigd out, and mand bl an empti-fisted 
Jrisfhman, bouever industries and persevsrig 
he mlt be. Heuever, az matterz stud, — in a 
ngcuntri in hwidh the best rezults werecspect- 
ed from the cemmigglig gv the most dissimilar 
bludz, — hwar ditferens in netiviti, rage and 
sta^hun in sosieti must be ignord, — hwar en- 
terprlz promisez better rezults tor the wel gv a 
pesteriti than a log purs or brod ecerz gv land — 
h war sosTeti iz sun tu be a rezultant gv the most 
divers Ilf forsez, molded bl (heenvlrenz gv an 
untrld cllm, untrld tudz, and clothig cut net 
accordig tu Parisian patternz, — hwar a pepul 
yunec in fiziegnomi, spirit, mannerz, and loz 
sfhal clam the pepul z gv everi nasfhun, and the 
rasez gv everi cllm, az the sorsez gv ther ori- 
jin, — Sbraham consented that biz doter mlt be 
the wlf gv the IFrisfh scul-master. Accordigli, 
upen die 23d gv Desember, 1777, Jenni De- 
remer becam, bl the holi bendz gv matrimoni, 
Jenni Deremer Wilsun. 

Az tu the persunej gv Jen Wilsun, ml fatti- 
er sez: “Mi grandfather, Jen AVilsun, wgz a 
veri sfhort man; but he wgz veri steutli hilt. 
Me had veri brod sfholderz and wgz veri streg. 
He had a brod, ful fas, in hwidh wer larj, ful, 
bemig Iz. He wgz never in a hurri — he yuzg- 
alli rnuvd sloli; but he wgz veri deliberet in 
hiz muvments. 


He W9Z fend ev dhildren; and with hiz 
grandchildren. hs wez a grot fuser and a grot 
romper. 

Hs had bin a soljer in the Revolqslhun and 
lie yuzd tu delft, in telir) us hen fhigz \yev in 
ths tun ev the wor. Hs spent enrz in telig sii*- 
cumstansez ev the battul ev Brandi Win, the 
ssveritizev ths mardh bsfor tbs battul ev Tren- 
tun, ev ths cresig ev ths Delawer and ths cap- 
tin* ev ths Hesfhanz, ev ths sharpnes ev ths fit 
at Prinstun, ev ths slharpnes ev ths fit and ths 
swell rines ev ths list at ths battul ev Mun- 
mufh. And, then, sumtlmz hs put en hiz ‘‘sol- 
jer clothz” and with ths “old museet ” that 
wez hiz “frend ol thru thsgret struggul” shod 
us hen gunz wer handuld in tlmz ev wor. 
H iz “old eect hat” hs olwez wor hwen hs 
wisht tn bs funni and hav a gud tlm with us; 
and az ws ceperd around him, hs wud ‘swot’ 
us with it, with ol that ecspreshun ev ernestnes 
and gnd yumur that med us onli ths mor llvli, 
andonli ths morvividli rnarct hiz affecsfhun for 
irs and hiz d slit in ssii) us hav a gad tlm. 

But, at grandfather’z hens, ther cem a tlm 
for prer. Then, ol had tu assembul tu hsr 
grandfather rsd ths scriptip-z and attend upon 
dsvosfhunz. ]NTo matter liwet els wez trans- 
plrii), hwen ths tlm for prer arrlvd, ol biznes 
ssst and everi sol — sven ths beggar hia, for 


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a morsel ev bred, dhanst tu step at the doi — 
gatherd in the sittig-rum for a devoshunal se- 
zun. And the selemniti and fervor with 
hwidh grandfather red the scriptqrz mad the 
eccazhun oful. J wez glad that “prar” cam 
but wuns a da. 

Hwen veri smol, hwll he wez redig, he held 
me en hiz lap, or bT the sTd ev hiz ne; and, az 
he neltdeun tu pra, he plasthiz ne en the sent 
ev ml eot, so that J cud net get awe. J re- 
member that 5 did net lie the arranjment, and 
J efen did a del ev scramblig and scradhig tu 
get awe; but ml efforts and struggulz wer ol 
in van; and grandfather pad az lit tul attensfh'un 
tu ml behavyur az he wud if J had bin az 
cwlet az a pet cittern” 

Father haz efen told yumurus talz about 
thigz that happend at hiz grandfather Wilsun’z 
liens; and efen, in a pert wa, he haz hit ef the 
custumz and practisez thar — Sertinli, he so 
them in a lafabul lit — and he never practist 
wun ev tliem. He yuzd tu sa; Granni Wil- 
sun at eni tun in the da, — and the richest ev 
fud! Suintlmz we wud go thar in the middul 
ev the forman. The bac-Irun wud be put over 
the fir rit awa; sum cacs wud be bact olinost 
ar we had lad asld eur paraferna; and then, 
hwll hot, the wenchez (for tha had a plenti ev 
slavz) wud dip diem r!t into the butter, until 


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the wud flot, pies them 011 a plet, cut them up 
(for us mid then put 011 mor butter, and brir> 
them tn us 011 a plet; or, the wud set them bsfor 
us, 011 a tebul with a plet ©v butter and a bol 
ev sfhugar; or, the wild brii) with them a cup 
0v crsm, and a cup 0v molassez, and, with them, 
a let 0v jumbulz, cuciz or donuts. Then, if ws 
did 1 1 0 1 st a del ov thsz thiijz, the thot ws wer 
sic; and sun the toct ov sendir) for Dr. B01111. — 
The et ol ths tun! — ol but Grandfather; hs 
did not st so much, and hs did not st so ofen. 

Granni woza tol, stout vvuman; and shs woz 
just az fond ov shoi clothz az shs woz ov rich 
fud ; and shsolwez drest accordir]li. Shs had 
a plenti ovjuelri — Gini gold dhenz, breslets, 
rigz and a dsl 0v uther paraferna — and shs ds- 
Hted tu bs gsrd up in them, at horn or abrod. 
Shs cud mec them shin, and ths rattul ov her 
dhenz woz proverbial. — But Grandfather woz 
a plen man — hs did not nsd eni sudh tliirjz tu 
mec him luc wel. 

Grandfather woz a fhuro bred Prezbitsrian. 
For meni } 7 srz, hs woz an Elder in ths Churdh a 
Mounteri; and ther hs olwez went tu dhurdh; 
and Granni went ther tu, — fill rigd and red i 
for biznes. — Ths hoi famili wer sticlerz los* go- 
ii] tu dhurdh. 

But for clevernes, and ficsig u[) her children 
and her grandchildren, no wun bst Granni 


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Wilsun. And then, slhs wez so veri particular, 
and so veri aristocratic; and sThs wonted her 
Children and her granddhildren tn he* so tw.” 

The account father givz ev granni, Jen De- 
reiner Wilsun, iz abundantli correhoreted from 
meni a sors. Hens, tu luc a littul into her 
ansestri me be attended with sum profit tu her 
desendants. 

Jen Deremer woz the secund doter ©v wun 
Qbraham De Reimer,* hu woz Hie sun ov wun 
izae De Reimer, a Huge not, lna, in 1681, tied 
hiz cuntri and settuld in Holland. (Qbout this 
tlm, 500,000, at the lest, Protestant Frendhmen. 
tn escep the sord ov the Catholic Freni dh men, 
tied ther cuntri into Holland, Jermani, Switzer- 
land and Ii]gland). Hwll in Holland, the De 
Reimerz becem meniberz ov tiis Dutdh Rs- 
formd Churdh, in buz interest ol die desend- 
ants becem depli and thuroli interested. But, 
hwll ther, die cept dier Frendli wez and prac- 

* On the old decrements, this nem iz Spelt De Reimer. The re- 
ul, or erlier, nem ev tile fannli iz lest. The term, De Reimer, liaz 
a meniq hwich liaz sum importans. The term De in French, 
menz qv, ©r frem The term Reimer iz the nem ev a villej and 
a district, in the north ev Frans. Hens, the term De Reimtr 
menz, ev Reimer ©r frem Reimer. 

In Gbruliam’z wil, the nem iz spelt Deremei , upena decrement 
given hi Jeceb De Reimer tu wun Jen Hegaman, it iz spelt Do- 
remer. Upen uther peperz, i lniv sen tile ©tograf, Daremer. 
Meni rot it Dremer ; and, bi this term, the cerles inveriabli cold 
the famili. And the lm did net admir the aristocratic, pensiv 
wez ev the old Frenchman cold him, ’‘Old Dremer.” 


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tist the custumz tu liwidh the luid bin bred in 
Frans. Indsd, so tenesthus wer the De Reim- 
erz 9 v tiier Frendh desent, and so proud wer 
the 0 v ther Frendh blud, that the con timid tu 
spec the Frendh laijgwej, and tu practis the cus- 
tuinz tu hwidli the had bin bred, until lei) aft- 
er ther desendant med ther homzin the a wlldz 
0 v Qmerica.” The olwez elenid that the wer 
Frendh pepul, and in ol tiier wez, egzhibited 
az mudh ev die Frendh element az pessibul. 

J hav had gret diffieulti tu lern die littul 
that J no ev the De Reimerz. Sins a dhlld, 
hav bin tiiig tu lern the particidarz ev diis 
famili. Tlie hia neu about them wer olwez 
loth tu cemmipucet. And, in proportion az 
nil ansestorz and udierz, wer loth tu tel me 
hwet i wisdit tu no, ml euriesiti depend, and 
ml zel tu no increst. Hens, ol acsesibul rec- 
ordz and documents, enshent and modern wer 
serdht; and yet S am piarli in form d respectii) 
this — perhaps the most wurthi — stoc from 
liwidh J hav desended. 

Hwenever J hav incwlrd ev ml fadier re- 
spectii) this brandh ev eur famili, he yuzqalli 
proseded tu tel me just livver the dwelt, hwet 
pezze^hunz the had, and dien — sum lafabul an- 
ecdot respectii) them that semd tu be intended 
tu bafful further incwlri. Ml old grandfather, 
Andru Larisun, hu semd tu never fer tu un- 


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ravel the most perplecsig misteri, and tu slet 
without fsr ev incurrig sensfhnr, or tiis hop ov 
genii] fevur, enifhii) about eni bodi, or about 
eni diig, cud never bs brot into a deteld ac- 
count ov the De Reimerz. He cud laf harti 
enuf about die ecsentrisitiz ov uther foes, dis- 
cus, in the most ters we, the folts, or die vir- 
tiiz, ov uther relativz, tel in die most consls 
and in die most Iqsid we the part that uther 
cinz-focs had acted in developig die resorsez 
©v the cuntri, or in promotig the moral or in- 
tellectual stetus ov die seeshun in hwidh die 
dwelt; but, about die De Reimerz, he had lit - 
tul tu se. 

And hwenever 5 hav incwlrd ov die sej, or 
wizard, respectig die De Reimerz, inveriabli a 
significant tos ov the hed, a smll, a froun, a log 
dron si, or a studid, J do-o n’t no-o, liazbin die 
most ecspresiv part ov the repll. 

But, from the littul that ^ hav glend, and 
from hwot J se in the relics ov the famili — die 
furnitur the had, the tebul eewipments, die 
nuizical instruments the pled, the tulz the 
yuzd, die hues die red, die elothz the wor, the 
cumpani the cept and the we the transacted 
biznes, etcetera , J infer that Qbraham De Reim- 
er and hiz wif wer intell ijent , welthi, pollt, re- 
zervd and aristocratic, a considerabul beyond 
eni uther pepul in die settulment in liwidli die 


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dwelt ; that at ther horn a wel selected llbreri 
WGZ dilijentli red, Hint ])olit maimerz wer ever 
practist, that select euinpani woz die onli euin- 
pani that woz vveleum at dier lions, diat, oltho 
for ther relijun’z see, tlie wer oblTjd tu mec 
ther horn in the forest ov Qmeriea, die did not 
intend tu liv a hwit helo the level ov die most 
retlnd, the most intellijent, die most pollt and 
the, most strict, in point ov relijun, and meralz 
that end be found in eni cuntri. 

The doterz wer bred tu muzic and a practis 
ov tbs fin arts jeneralli. Spesimenz ov ther 
handiwurc ^ hav sen. The wer veri meritori- 
us. In embroiderig and in nittig, die espesfh- 
alli ecsseld. — Q set ov tebul-spunz, (silver) log 
yuzd in the De Reimer famili, ov ecscwizit de- 
zln and wurcinansthip, engreven with the let- 
terz A. D. R. ar stil in a veri gud stet ov prez- 
ervesdinn in the pozzesfhun ov Jen De Reimer 
Holeum, ov Mount eri, J.; and a ts-spun, 
ov the sem dezln and cwoliti, J so a feu dez 
ago, in die handz ov Mrs. Dennis V. L. Scene. 

At De Reimerz, die tebul woz set in the 
most attractiv we, fulli ecwipt widi die best 
plet and cut.leri in vog in thoz dez, supplid 
widi die ridhest ov fud, and attended b! a ful 
cor ov negro servants — for die old digniteri 
had a plenti ov slevz, and lict tu be wel servd, — 
espesfhalli hwTl at the tebul. 


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0v mqzic, the wer espeshalli fond; and, 
rnornig and evenig the grov wez med tu re- 
zeund with the rnelodi ev the piano and the 
Ur, — accumpanid with veisez scild tn sig and 
tu dhant. 

0v itself, this cors-ev lit, in the neburhud 
in hwidh the livd, — a \n\ settulment ev pspul 
bred tu ecspozliqr and hard servis — wild render 
them eestrsmli unpopular, — 8 veil if a siggul 
folt cud net bs p retard agenst diem. But, 
dier immsdiet dssendants had, 4 wen, no val- 
id rszun for bsig ashemd ev them ; and no just 
coz for trstig them widi such a shemfnl wont 
ev parental respect. Q1 die Corlz ever had, 
or the Wilsunz ever had, and ol the ever aroz 
tu be, depended directh upen hwet the get in 
die act ev marriig the doterz ev Qbraliam De 
Beimer. Q penniles ®risTh scial-tedher, hi mar- 
riig wun ev hiz pqpilz, wez put, at wuns, into 
afflqens, and at hiz ez, and wez surrounded 
witii ol that cud censpTr tu mec him cumfurt- 
abul; and he wez furnisfht with ol that cud 
mec him inflqenshal and effectiv for gud; and 
yet he livd ent hiz dez, in fnl veu ev die littul 
yard in hwidh the led the remenzev hizfather- 
in-lo, without so mudh az marcig, upon the fre- 
ston that the secstun ev die yard set at hiz 
grev, die inishalz ev the nemz ev hiz wit’s pe- 
rent and hiz on benefactor. 


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Nor les sensoriusli can we spec ov the Coil 
branch ov this aiWhent famili. Samuel Corl, 
a yug Ig^lisTh rover, hi marriig Cafherin De 
Reirner, vvez settuld, at wuns, upon a larj tract) 
ecwipt for the most effishent wurc in farmig, 
furnisfht with ol a yug man cud dezlr tu mec 
him inflqenslhal in a ng and flurisfhig commgn- 
iti — les than a haf mil from the grav yard — 
and nether he, nor hiz dhildren, mad fat and 
ridh out ov the purs ov Sbraham De Remer, 
pozzest gratitgd enuf, nor enuf sens ov parent- 
al dqti, tu marc the grav ov him hu gav them 
thai* bsig and ol ov this yvurldz effects that tha 
ever enjoid. And tu-da, no man nozhwar tha 
lad the bodi ov Gbraham De Remer. 

It haz olwaz bin cui*rentli told and jeneralli 
belevd that hwen Izac De Reiiner fled hiz cun- 
tri, he wozalloud tu tac with him hiz property — 
ov hwidh he had a considerabul. Hens, he 
cam tu this cuntri pozzest ov much welfh. 
Thigz belogir) tu the older De Remerz sfho tiia t 
tha had not onli a refind, an ecsewizit tast, but 
olso a plenti tu bi with. The old Bibul — in 
hwidh iz biz famili record — iz in mi pozzeshun. 
It iz in Holland Dutdh and iz a fhig tu be vend 
and adrnird. Its legfh iz 18.5 indhez; its 
width iz 11.5 indhez; its fhicnes iz 4.5 indhez; 
its wat iz 18.75 poundz. It iz printed upon 
ecsellent paper, and strogli bound in Iether, in 


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a veri substanslhal and a veri ornet stll. The 
marjinal refercnsez ar fill and the fut nots co- 
pius. The bras clasps that seeur die clozip* on 
the buc hav bin rot bT a wureman ev superior 
soil; the “twlig” upen the ledier ev the ces iz 
ecscwizit in dezTn and in finish; and the bras 
caps that protect die cornerz ar ©1 that a most 
ardent luver gv the ornet cud wisfh. 

The old buc haz sufferd a del gv handliip 
Her granddhildren sa it iz die Bibul that Jen- 
ni Wilsun ©lwez red. — For, oltho sdie marrid 
and livd widi an Iris!h scul-tedher lua red ecs- 
tensivli the vvurcs gv Igglisfh ©fhorz, sfhe preferd 
tu red die hues gv thoz lua rot ether Holland 
Dutdh or Frendh, — the latter ev hvvidh she spoc 
widi ez, gres and gret fluensi. — It vvgz the 
spedh yuzd in her father’z lions, and that hvvidh 
sfhe first spoc. 

In this old buc ar several fragments gv die 
record ov die several brandhez gv the De Rem- 
erz. Ther iz wun fragment gv Izac De Bern- 
er’z record ; anuther fragment gv a record gv 
the tamili ov Albert Van Vorliez and Cafherin 
De Remer hu wer marrid upon the 22nd ov 
November, 1737 ; but, ov die nem gv Qbrahani 
De Remer, biz birth, marrij or defh, ther iz no 
stetment. But, from uther sorsez, we no that 
Qbraham De Remer’z wlf vvgz a Sidam (Suy- 
dam), and that her father’z nem wgz Jon Si- 


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dam, a bruther tu Cornelius Sidam, hia woz 
the father ov Mari, wJf ov Dennis Van Lu, the 
grandfather ov Dennis V. D. Scege, ov Dela- 
war Tounsfhip, in this Count i. 

From theabuvwe lern that Jon Sidam Wil- 
sun woz namd after hiz grandfather, Jon Si- 
dam, ov Sumerset Counti, 3$T. J. 

The blagc levz, in die frunt and die bac ov 
this bue, had bin yuzd for recordz ov die De 
Kemer famili until everi pcj woz fuL But log 
be for the hue cam into ml handz, meni ov diez 
levz wer worn out bl handlig, and sum frag- 
ments ov them lost; and larj areaz, ov sum ov 
the fragments that stil reman, ar so worn diat 
the rltig iz deslferd widi grat difficulty or els iz 
entlrli indesiferabul. 

Qbraham DeRemer* purdhast a tract ovland 
in Amwel, (az it then woz cold), in Hunterdun 
Counti, FT. J., ecstendig estward, from the south 
slop ov Saudi Rij, far of into the Redshal ov 
the Alecsocen basin. It included the farm 
neu ond bl Judsun Rittenhous, the wun ond bi 
Wilyam Warman, die wun ond b! Bizzi, 
the wun ond bl Edward Holcum, the wun ond 
bl Jamz O. Bonn, the wun ond bl Jamz J. 

*ai9i) with abraham De Reiraer, ther cem tu this secsliun 
and tuc up land adjeinig en the seufh, wun — La Rue, a French- 
man frem hum desended that famili that wez wuns so nqmerus 
in old Amwel. 


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Fisfher and the wun cmd In Theodor Fisfher. 
The tract woz a rlt ngguld parallelogram huz 
grater legfh ecstended est and west. It woz. 
about tu mllz leg, and consisted ev about a 
fheuzand ecerz. 

Upon the hlest part ov this tract, — ner the 
western terminus, hi up the slop ev Sandi Rij, 
hi the sld ov a delltful sprig ov never falig, 
soft woter, ov cristal denies and pgriti, he hilt 
biz mansfhun, hwidh, for the timz, woz c wit spa- 
dius, and vvozsumhvvot pretensfhus. The littul 
ril that proseded from the sprig, and babbuld 
hi hiz lions, with its spared ig, limpid woter, its- 
slhlnig pebbulz and its verdant borderz, gev 
dherfulnes tu ©1 thigz therabout. And so or- 
natli woz it best, tliat it so attracted theatten- 
slhun ov hiz naburz and thoz that vizited him, 
tiiat the stori ev De Remer’z sprig and ttie ril 
in hiz dor, woz told tu me, az wun ov theplezig 
talz ev “ye olden timz” hi the sajez, wizardz. 
and historianz ev Sandi Rij lua yuzd tu inform 
me respectig the thigz ev yor. 

Hiz horn must hav bin pictgresc. I hav 
herd moi* than wun descant upon the sit uesfhun 
and the envlronz ov “Old DremeFz hens.”' 
Kilt in a virjin forest, upon an eminens with a 
suthern aspect, jentli slopig of into die vel ev 
the Alecsocen, hiz mansfhun, surrounded In 
hgj trez, huz umbrejus bouz mad ol beneth 


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3hedi, sev hwer her and ther, for artistic effect, 
the had feld a tre tu let in a gv lit. from 

the viviflig sun or the silveri mum; or tu illit- 
min a vvel drest sward, or an ornet parter, the 
had lept. of sum bonz or cut awe sum scrag- 
gli buslhez, woz dentles az wel siped tu at- 
tract attensfhun, and arouz the envi av thoz hia 
past bT, or dhanst tu vizit die pies, az it vvez tu 
afford debt, cumfurt and happines tu the mem* 
berz ev the intellijent, aristocratic famili and 
the intellijent and reflnd gests hia med ffierat 
a temporeri ste. 

Hiz ordhardz and vinyardz wer ecstensiv; 
and ev hiz win, the told me, he freli drarjc, — at 
the tebul everi de, and at festiv Gceezhunz, — 
hwen hiz wurthi gests and dhurdh digniteriz 
vizited him — in espesfhal cwontitiz. Hiz cat- 
tul, sfhep and swln wer mpnerus; and gv hors- 
ez he had a plenti. Inded, the yuzd tu tel me 
that he “ferd sumptpusli everi de.” 

Hwen the oldest doter marrid, sfhe wgz set- 
tuld u|)on a bqtiful eminens, in a most pictip- 
esc |)les ner the senter ov her father’z tract. 
In the development gv this part gv gui* CGimti, 
this sit becem Barber’z Stesfhun (ugu Bguii’z 
Stesdiun) gu the Flemigtun Rel-Rod. 

Az the rezult gv this marrij wgz a sun and 
a doter, Hie sun, Benjamin, inherited the hom- 
sted, hwll the grandfather loceted the doter 


40(5 


Nansi (lna marrid Jon Bonn, M. D., upon an- 
uther tract, with bildigz hard bl the hom ev her 
father. Tliez tia estets, with an abundans ev 
muni, wez ficst tu die Corlz, with a hop that 
(her ttie wud cep the standard av a pur Reli- 
jun, (her the Ideaz and noshunz gv (her an- 
sestorz wnd bs perpetueted, (hat (her the blud 
gv Qbrabam De Remer wnd inflgens the cem- 
muniti, for gnd, thru the cum ip ejez. This 
hop, 5 am happi tn se, haz not entlrli feld. 
This branch gv the De Remer desent pled an 
important part in (he development gv this sec- 
sfhun gv 0111* cunt ri. 

Hwen (he necst doter, Jenni, marrid Jon 
Wilsun, a hom and a settulment woz med for 
them westward gv the Corl hom, upon a bgti- 
ful slop, hard bl a last ig sprig gv woter, gv 
cristal denies, ©v refresh ig cialnes, and ©v far 
farad salgbriusnes. At wuns, her wgz ficst for 
(lie Wilsun famili everifhig that end condgs tn 
prosperiti, foster clndli, jenerus and filanfhrop- 
ic felig, and promot welfh and an inflgens for 
gnd. Nor, in (he ficsig ©v this homsted for 
hiz erz did the gnd old man neglect theconven- 
yensez ©v the traveler, and the cumfurts ov hiz 
bests. From the sprig ©11 the slop, her die h!- 
drant pord its urn. At die fenntin, her ficst In 
(he rod-sid, drage the jaded hors, hwll beneth 
(he umbrajus b©nz gv the hgj Wepig Willo 


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the brez, from die west, culd the weri traveler. 
ISTo In woz her; but her die hors and hiz rider, 
the tern and the temster, thedrov and the drov- 
er bolted tu rest and tu be refresh!, andtn en- 
joi the cumfurls tiiat wer the rezultev die thot 
die elndli felip and the benevolent hart ov him 
lua dwelt in hiz lnanshun in die forest upon die 
hi 1 . Thus did our gud old grandslr tedh our 
forfadierz tu cep in practis that spirit ov be- 
nevolens that he gev them in ther birth rlt; 
thus did he sec tu cep befor them, in a simpul, 
humbul we, the importans and the rezults, ov 
jenerus acts, and tu tedh diem that no wun 
shudlivtu himself alon; that the humblest of- 
fis that a man can fil conspirz tu the happi- 
nes ov men and bests, and wurcs gud tu ol 
cretijrz. In the persunz ov sum ov the children 
this spirit attend fill development. — And, I 
thapc mi starz, that her and ther, in hiz de- 
sendants me be found, oltho ©fen strugglir) for 
an egzistens, sumdiip ov that gud spirit that so 
ridhli abounded in him. 

The gud that welfh me dia, — the cumfurt tu 
man and best that me be seciird b! it, hwen in 
the handz ©v the nobul and gret, izyet untold. 

Hia constituted Gbraham De Remer’z fami- 
li me be sen hi redip wun ov hiz wilz hwidh I 
her append : 


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In ths n«m ev ggd omen, i Ghraham Deremer ev the teun- 
ship ev Amwel in the ceunti ev Hunterdun and Western Divi- 
zhun ev the Stet ev Neu Jerzi beii) sic and wee ev bedi but 
ev seund and perfect mind & memori prez be therfor Given un 
ta (Dlmiti Ged for the Sam da mac and ordan tiiis ml last Wil 
and Testament in manner and form felloig (that iz tu Sa) First 
and prinsipalli i Commit mi sol in t a the liandz ev (Dlmiti Ged 
ha gev it and mi bedi tu the erth tu be Desentli berrid at tile 
Discreshun ev mi Egzecgtorz lierafter Nemd and az tuchiij the 
Dispozishun ev ©1 such Temporal Estet az it hath plezd (Dlmiti 
Ged tu besto upen me IE giv and Dispoz theref in manner and 
form felloig, — tEwil that ol mi just Deis and funeral charge/ be 
enorabli and justliped and Discliarjd. iEtemIBgiv and beewefh tu 
mi Sun Gbraliam the sum evtwenti tiv peundzin li^ev liiz Birth 
RitlEtem mi wil iz that mi Beluved wif Jen iz tu liv in mi lieus 
and Enjei ful pezzeshun theref with die yus and prefits ev ol mi 
Landz, and wun Negro man nemd Tern and thre HorsezSucli az 
She me chaz and wun pleu and liarro, with the ger and Taclir) 
ther unta belerjig, and tiv Ceuz ol liwicli mi Beluvd wif iz tu hav 
and Enjei drpig her Widohud. item mi M il iz if mi wif sliud 
marri agen she iz tu hav wun Hundred peundz in muni and 
Heushold gudz for tu furnish -wun Ram In Lit ev ©1 Deuriz item 
i giv and Devlz tu mi Sun and er Gbraliam part ev mi Real Es- 
tet, tu Wit Beginnii) at a smol Sprig in Garret Wilyamsun'z 
Lin frem diens a north cors tu a lin ev Garret Covenhoven and 
ol the land that iz min tu die estward ev that north lin tu him 
and hiz erzand assinz forever item mi wil iz diat mi Egzeciitorz 
lierafter nemd shal giv tu ech ev mi Doterz unmarrid — Hwen 
the shal wont it or hwen the be evdj az much Heushold furni- 
tq,r and Creturz — az i gev tu mi Doter Catherin, and mi wil iz 
that if mi wif marriz or hwen Desest hwicli ever me happen first, 
diat ol mi Land tu the westward ev die befor menshund north 
Lin be sold bi mi Egzeccporz lierin after menshund, andScwalli 
divided amugst mi for Doterz Viz. Catherin wif ev Samuel 


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‘Corl, Jen, Lea and Cornelia With ©1 ttie Rest ev mi nnivabul 
Estat. Hwhtsoever tu be 8c\valli Divided Slier and Slier alic 


-amugst mi Doterz Stem and it iz mi wil that mi wif iz tu kep mi 
tu Children neu under Rj til die Cum tu be ev Rj eut ev the 
prefits ev mi Estet — And S du lierbi appeint mi wel Beluved 
wif Jen, and mi Sun-in-1© Samuel Corl and mi wel beluved 
Frend Jonathan Pidcec, Egzecgjorz ev this mi last wil and 
testament and S du herbi Impeuer thez mi EgzectRorz tu Sel and 
Sin Sel and EcsectR ©1 such Cenveansez and Ded ©r Dedz ac- 
cordig tu L© f©r the Cenfirmig mi real Estet, net ©lredi Devizd 
And S du lierbi Revoc and mec Yeid and Nul ©1 uther Wilz bi 


me liertufor med Declerig this onli tu be mi Last Wil and Tes- 
tament in Testimoni liweref f liav heruntu Set mi hand and Sel 


this forth de ev September In the yer ev eur Lord wun theuzand 
seven hundred and seventi seven— 1777. 


Sind Seld Publisht and Declerd hi' 
tile abuv nemd R bra ham Deremer 
tu be hiz Last wil and testament in 
the prezens ev us hu liav heruntu 
Subscribd eur nemz az witnesez in 
the prezens ev the testator— 

Jen Barber 
Jen Meldrum 
Jen Lambert 


tibraham Deremer 


Bi this wil, ws lent that Qbraham De Berner 
had fiv dhildren ; and that wun ev them had 
man-id Samuel Corl. Frem this yunyun islh- 
sdiud a sun hum thR cold Benjamin and a do- 
ter hum the cold Nansi. 

1 Benjamin man-id Elizabeth Lambert, do- 
ter ev Jozef Lambert, a hotel-ceper in Lam- 
bert vil, N. J., the persun frem hum that siti 
dsrivd its nem. Thar dhildren wer 
—a Ca flier in hu marrid Wilyam Barber hu, 


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for meni yerz, dwelt upon the hornsted ov her 
fa tlier; 

— b Charlz hu marrid Hanna Hogland, doter 
ov Derric Hogland, hi hum he had tine chil- 
dren, Calvin, Benjamin (desest ), and Ellen 81iz- 
abefh (desest). 

Calvin woz horn Jamjari 22, 1830. He 
marrid Hanna, doter ov Gilbert Van Camp* 
bl hum he had tu children — Charlz hu did in 
infansi and Hanna hu did at the aj ov 3 yerz. 

Qft.er the defh ov Hanna Van Camp, Calvin 
marrid Anna Hancinz. 

Calvin iz a farmer. He livz ner Neshanie 
Steslhun, Sumerset Counti, 3$T. J. For meni 
yerz, he haz bin wun ov the jujez ©v die cort 
ov Sumerset Counti. Dqrir) the Lejisletiv ses- 
shunz ov 1869, ’70, ’71, he reprezented the 
Counti ov Sumerset in die Senet ov Neu Jei- 
zi. 

He iz a man ov vvid indue ns, gratli respect- 
ed bl die ]iublic and transacts a gret del ov 
biznes az wel for the public az for privet siti- 
zenz. 

— c Samuel hu marrid Debora Jonz Lambert, 
doter ov Jon Lambert, ov Lambertvil, N. J., 
bl hum he had Jon L. hu marrid An Van 
Doren; Mari 8. hu marrid Dennis V. L~ 
Scegc; Samuel (did in infansi); Samuel hu. mar- 


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rid Emma L. Hoi ; and Franses Jonz, hu mar- 
rid Qbraham Du Beis Wilsun. 

— d Elizabeth Lambert bu marrid Wilyam 
Iv. Ot buz dhildren wer Shariat, Wilyam, Jes- 
se and Elizabeth Lambert, hm marrid Izac Hoi 
9v Trentun, N. J. 

2 Nansi Corl wez born Mardh 5, 1770. She 
marrid Jen Bonn, M. D. (born September 2, 
17(57; did November 4, 1857), ev Munmuth, 
N. J., hu dwelt with her upon the estet her 
grandfather gev her, until her deth, hwidh ec- 
curd Februeii 18, 1856. The had tu dhildren, 
Cornelia and Jozef Gardner. 

— 1 Cornelia wez born Me 3, 1795; sfhe did 
Me 16, 1802. 

— 2 Jozef Gardner wez born Mardh 28, 1804 ; 
he did Jamieri 12, 1888. He marrid Meri S. 
Barber, doter ev Samuel Barber, bl hum he 
had — 

a Jen Miltun, (born September 18, 1831; 
did Ogust 31, 1863,) hu marrid An Meri Fisfh- 
er, doter ev Jen C. Fisfher, bl hum he had Jemz 
Oswel, Jozef Holmz, Jen Addisun, and Cor- 
nelia hu marrid Theodor P. Hufman. 

b Cornelia Bean hu wez born Ogust 20, 
1833. 

Meri S. Barber did Ogust 20, 1842. Jozef 
Gardner then marrid Sera Circpatric, doter 


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0 v the Rev. Jeceb Cirepatric, D. D., ev Rig- 
u'oz, N. J. She wez born October 11, 1823. 
She had a sun hum the cold Jeceb Cirepatric, 
hu wez born Desember 10, 1846. 

Jeceb marrid An Conover Yug, (born Me 
26, 1848; did Februeri 25, 1884,) doter ev 
den Yug and Meri Conover, b! hum he had — 

Jen Conover, born Jangeri 10, 1871. 

Meri Yug, born Me 5, 1873. 

Ella Cirepatric, born Mardh 28, 1876. 

Anna Seegc, born September 5, 1881. 

Qfter die deth ev An Yug, Jeceb marrid 
Bliza W. doter ev Jeceb S. and Rebecca II. 
Frol, hu wez born Desember 7, 1852, hi bum 
be liad a sun hum the cold Jeceb Gardner,, 
hu wez born Me 20, 1889; did Jangeri 12,. 
1890. 

Samuel Corl, the projenitorev the Corl Fam- 
ili, wez an Igglislhman hu cem tu this cuntri 
hwen yug. He did Me 27, 1834, ejd 90 yerz. 
lie had a sister hu wez the wif ev 
Heppec, ev the ensfhent Heppec homsted, ner 
Beun’z Stesliun, Hunterdun Cennti, Neu Jer- 
zi. 

Gbraham De Remer’zsun Gbraham, marrid 
An, doter ev Gbraham Hegaman, hu wez Hie 
nerest nebur tu Gbraham De Remer. Bi die 
wil ev Gbraham Ilegaman, med Desember 


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21, 1795, we lern that hire dhildren isfhsfhud 
from tiiis yunyun : 

item It iz ml wil that mi Egzecutorz du pe until the chil- 
dren ev mi doter An Deremer, Desest the sum ev twenti fiv 
peundz in muniz az aforsed in seven yerz after mi wif’ s deses, 
it beig part ev die muniz agenst mi sun Jen, tu be divided intu 
thre ecwal parts, wun third part tu ml grandsun dbraliam De- 
remer, wun third part tu mi granddoter Chariti Deremer, and 
wun third part tu mi grandsun Jeceb Deremer hwich sed sums, 
i giv and becweth until tiiem and ech ev them. 

H iz doter Lea rnarrid, it iz sed, a Godeun; 
hut sLe had no dhildren. She did sun after 
marrij. 

From a wil, mad Ma 12, 1784, it apperz (az 
he macs no provizhun for her) that hiz wif ©1- 
so did prior tu this det: 

— Imprimis 5 giv deviz and becweth until mi onli sun abraham 
©1 mi landz, tu be tu him hiz erz and assinz forever Olso ol 
mi werig apparel & wun negro bei cold Migc, wun wagen, 
wun pleu, wun liarro, with hiz clieis ev thre liorsez inclqdig tile 
wun, he neu colz hiz on He peig tu hiz thre sisterz wun hun- 
dred peundz ech, in manner felloig that iz tu sc tu mi doter 
Catherin, wif ev Samuel Corl, the sum ev fifti peundz, in tu 
yerz after mi deses, and so in lie manner tu mi doter Jen wif 
ev Jen Wilsun, the sum ev fifti peundz, and the remenig sum 
ev fifti peundz ech, tu mi doterz Catherin & Jen the yer felloig 
the first pement, and wun hundred peundz tu mi yuggest doter 
Cornelia in for yerz after mi deses hwich sed sum slial be tu 
them and ther erz forever. litem i giv and becweth untu mi 
doter Cornelia the sum ev fifti peundz tu be tu her, her erz & 
assinz forever, item it iz mi wil that ©1 the remender and rez- 


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idty ev mi estet slial be scwalli divided amugst mi this doterz 
Viz. Cafherin, Jen and Cornelia tu be tu them tiler erz and as- 
sinz forever. 

Within a feu yerz after ths det ev Qbraham 
Hegaman’z wil, Qbraham Be Renter, jr. and ©1 
hiz dhildren did ev Censumpsfhun ; — first the 
father, then the dhildren, in the Ol der ev senyer- 
iti, — wun everi sprig. The wer berrid in Bar- 
ber’ z Semeteri. 

Tu prezerv die nem ev the grandfather, the 
oldest sun ev Jen AA^ilsun vvez nemd Qbraham 
Be Reiner Wilsun. He priavd tn be a dhlld 
that premist tu be wurthi ev an eestended ed- 
tjcesfhun. Aeeordigli, hiz grandfather began 
tu devlz wez that wud mold him intta die man 
he wislht him tu be, and tu provTd menz tu 
promot hiz yusfulnes. He sent him tu seul at 
hiz on ecspens, had him graduated at Rutger’z 
Cellej, X. J., ed gee ted him for die ministri ev 
the Hut dli Reform d dhurdh and in order that 
he mlt net be holi dependent upen eni ceggre- 
gesftiun for support, he wild him die farm up- 
en hwidh Jen Wilsun wez settuld (Se Jen 
Wilsun’z Wil, pej 423) and a censiderabul ev 
muni besidz. 

Tu hiz credit let me sa it, Gbraham De 
Remer Wilsun did net disappeint hiz wurthi 
old grandfather in hiz hi Ideal ev his premisiij 
grandsun. The spirit that the grandfadier so 


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mudh admlrd — ttie spirit that wild mec eni sac- 
rifls for tiis welfer gv humaniti and die promo- 
shun ov the Cristyan relijun — dwelt ricfhli in 
hiz grandsun, az the hoi cors ev hiz Ilf tended 
tn sho. Q ploner clerjiman ev the blest tip 
wez he — wun that responded ewieli tn die col 
ev dqti, — wun that censiderd the benefishal 
rezults that wud accru, net the am emit evsac- 
rifls that wnd fello eni undertecig, — wun diat 
acted accordii) tu hiz cenviesfhunz under ol 
sircumstansez. 

Gbraham De Remer Wilsun, in Fervij, 1 11 i - 
nei, upon the 16di ev October, 1837, organfzd 
the first dhurdh, (consist ig ev onli at, rnemberz) 
ev the Dutch Reformd order, west ev the Alle- 
geni Meuntinz. Upon diis errand he wez del- 
egated, with pener tu ecsersiz hiz on jujment 
h wether he organlz a dhurdh or net. Hwen he 
returnd tu the Classis ev Neu Brunzwic, ther 
wez, from meni, an ecspresfhun ev discontent, 
and the crl aroz: Hu iz wilig tu lev hom, 
frendz and everithip that iz der tu diem tu tec 
dharj ev the “branch” planted in the then “far 
west”, — in the wlldz, — in the untild preriz ev 
Illinei? — The promt repll ev Gbraham wez: 
“Our children, born in the wildernes, must net 
be left lu perish alon. If no wun els can be 
found, I wil go.” 


Accordigli, in the sprig ev 1838, in wagenz 
tu transport biz famili and biz wurldli effects, 
be set out for die littul dhurdh in the far west. 
Tie ariivd in Fervg, IllinGi, sumtirn in JulT, 
1838, and at wuns enterd upen pastoral diffiz. 

Hiz elocwens, sinseritiand unfend devosfhun 
sun attracted a ceggregeshun. Tu the littul 
bodi gv et, sian addisfautiz wer med. Mor 
CGlonists from the est — not a feu gv them at- 
tracted thither hi hiz prezens, biz fern az a 
predher, and an eder in everi gud wurc — set- 
tuld in die visiniti. 0v diez, meni y united with 
die dhurdh. Sun the abandund the littul, leg 
cabin in hwidh die wuns met, for mor spe- 
shus cworterz. Sun after die attempted tu e- 
rect a stetli bildiij for the* aceommodesfhun gv 
dicr rapidli incresip cepgregesliun. With ad- 
versiti, for thre yerz, die strugguld — but nev- 
er folterd — til in October, 1841, the dedicated 
tu the wurship gv God that cGmmodius struct- 
\\v in hwidh the Churdh stil wurships, — and 
perhaps wil cent inn tu wurship for fifti yerz 
or mor. He servd diis dhurdh az pastor, for 
18 yerz — until it becem larj and strep — a peu- 
er in the land for gud. 

Subsecwentli, hiz feld wez the wurld. And 
eftishent wez he in it — ever activ, ever prernt 
tu respend tu everi col frem hwetever sors it 
cem. 


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U nt i.i 

Jon Wilson 
and 

Jenni Deremer 
wer born 


1 Mari, born Oct. 15, 1778, 

2 Jenni, born Jim 15, 1780. 

3 Lea, born Opril 17, 1782. 

4 Sliz., born Oct. 10, 1784. 

5 Sara, born Jan. 2, 1787. 

6 Obr. D., born JN"ov. 15, 1788. 

7 Jen S., born Sept. 10, 1791. 

8 David, born Qg. 20, 1793. 

9 W m. W., born Mar. 17,1790 

10 Corn., born Opr. 2, 1798. 


1 Mari Wilsim marrid Andria Larisun huz 
histori formz a part ov the velum tn bvvidh 
this Histori iz Appendics B. Ss pajez 1 tn 
320 ev this hue. 


2 Jenni Wilsun marrid Caleb F. Mor. Tha 
settuld upon a farm upon (he east sid gv the 
rod that ecstendz from Meiuiteri tn Dilts Cor- 
ner, 1ST. J. Tha had tu dhildren, 


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— 1 Sera An, born Qpril 18, 1805, did a med y 
Jnli 5, 1878, and, 

— 2 Wilsun F., born Janueri 4, 1807, bu mar- 
rid 8l!za Ilolcum, a sister tu Jen C. Holcum, 
1)1 bum he bad, 

— a Ridhard H., born Qgust 10, 1829, . bu 
marrid Meri Elizabeth Burroz r b! hum he bad 
tu dhildren, R. H., born Qgust 13, 1863; did 
Janueri 12, 1877, and Sera, bu marrid Detis- 
Red ev Lambert vil, Jerzi ; 

— b Lea, born .November 14, 1832; did JnlT 
4, 1888, bu marrid Charlz A. Prls ev Lam- 
bertvil, Neii Jerzi; 

— c Elizabeth, born . bu marrid 

Temlinsun,ev Lambert vil, Neu Jerzi.. 
— d Celeb, born ; did a badh- 

elor, in the Qrmi 

— e Allen, born bu marrid 

Chidister. 

Jenni De Reimer Wilsun Mor, did Mardh 
30, 1843. 


3 Lea Wilsun, marrid Jozef Mor, father 
ev Temas Mor, ev Mor’z Milz, in Merser Ceun- 
ti, Ne n Jerzi. She did dhildles, Jull 3, 1841. 


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4 81izabefh, marrid a widoer, Samuel Will- 
vertun, a farmer, ev Delawar Teunsfhip, Hun- 
terdun Ceunti, Neu Jerzi, bl hum die had a 
sun, Morris Wnl vertun, born 
bu livz tier Stoeton, JSTeu Jerzi. He haz tu 
sunz — Rev. Wilyam Wul vertun, Pastor ev 
the 2d Prezbiterian Churdh ev Trentun, Neu 
Jerzi, and 


5 Sera, did a mad, Ogust 18, 1851. 


6 QbrahamDeReimer, graduated atRutgerz 
Cellej, ISTeu Brunzwic, IN". J., and enterd the 
ministri ev die Dutdh Reformd Churdh. He 
wez an elocwent and a forsibul predher, and a 
veri influential Cristyan jentulman. For a 
tim, be servd a dhurdh in Shwaggum Issn 
Yore. Hwil predhig her, he sufferd hemorraj 
ev die lu^z tn the ecstent that he wez oblljd 
tu rezln hiz Pastorat. He then remuvd tu hiz 
farm in Delawar Teunsfhip, Hunterdun Ceun- 
ti, ITSTeu Jerzi, neu ond bl Theodor Fisher. 

Subseewentli, he servd the Churdh at North 
Brandi, Neu Jerzi. From diisdharj he went, 
az a misfhuneri, tu die dhurdh at Farvip Illi- 
nei. Hwil her servirj the dhurdh he embarct 


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in agricultpr, in hwidh 1)8 wgz veri sucsesfnL 
He wez a larj, vvel dissipli nd man — had a 
strep, vvel trend veis, spec d ist ijgetli and peint- 
edli, and wez veri cemmandip in appsrans. He 
handuld a larj odiens veri sucsesfnlli. 

He marrid Julia Fillips ev Shwapgum !Neu 
Yore, bl hum he had, 

— a J 011 hu wgz born and hu 

marrid 

— b Gbraham hu wgz born t 

and hu marrid 

— c Harri hu wgz born r 

and hu marrid Scilman, 

— cl Julia hu wgz born 

She marrid Dr. Gaddis. 

— e Jen hu wgz born 
She marrid Jen Pom mi. 


7 Jen Sidam, marrid BlTza Redip, a sister tit 
Persun Redip, ev Lambertvil, Neu Jerzi. In 
1828, in partnership with Wilyam Heppec, he 
hot the villej, Prolzvil, Nen Jerzi, eensistip ev 
a don rip mil, a so mil, a plaster mil, a stor, a 
tract ev land and several dwelipz, and conduct- 
ed a llvli and thrift! biznes. Subseewentli, he 
settuld upon a smol farm ner Senior Bridj, nen 
Stecten* Nen Jerzi. He wgz at wun tlm a 


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Justis ov th8 Pes and did “mudh biznes.” 
Ids wez a man commandig in apperans, plez- 
ant in hiz wez, agreabul in hiz addres and in- 
flqensfhal with ol hiz assosfhiets. He did Me 
18, 1851. 

I Is had t ia dhildren — 

— 1 Ellen hu wez born 

— 2 Jen born hu marrid 

Permsla Dilts, bT hum he haz dhildren — 


8 David marrid Suzan M. Heppec, and set- 
tuld upen a farm ner the rod that ecstendz frem 
Meunteri tu Vandola’z Scul heus, — nen ond 
bT hiz nefq, Jonathan Heppec. He wez a 
cwlet, industrius, enterprlzig man, gretli re- 
spected In ol and veri respectful tn ol. Hiz 
homsted wez a thiq ev bqti; — he wez an ecsel- 
lent farmer. He did October 14, 1857. 


9 Wilyam Woterz Wilsun marrid An Lam- 
bert (born Me 11, 1811), Mardh 28, 1831, bT 
hum he had 

— 1 Meri Lambert, hu wez born September 6, 
1832, and hu did Janqeri 12, 1887; and 
— 2 Jen De JReimer hu wez born Me 10, 1834. 
Jen marrid, Me 29, 1858, Alecsander P. Hoi- 


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cum (born Februari 24, 1816; did (Jgust 31, 
1889), sun ©v Solomon Holcum ©v Monnteri, 
1ST. J., bl hum slie had tu dhildren — 

— a Anna Mari (born November 20, 1860), 
hu marrid Ridhard H. Rugcul ov Monnteri, 
N. J., bl hum sfhe haz tu dhildren, Nelli H. 
born Juli 17, 1886 and Ethel J., born Jun 
25, 1891. 

— b Cafherin Barber Holcum hu vvoz born 
October 9, 1863. 

Gfter the detli ov An Lambert, Wilyam 
marrid Jerusfha Thadher, doter ©v Omus 
Thadher, hu woz the father ov Jecob Thadher 
and ov Robert Thadher, hu woz wuns Sherif 
ov Hunterdun Oonnti, Nsn Jerzi. Jerusfha 
woz the wido ov Asfher Lambert, and the muth- 
er ov Gersfhum, Jon, Slizabefh, and Carolin. 

Wilyam Woterz Wilsun woz censiderd 
wun ov the cleverest ov men. — He vvoz veri 
emiabul and veri benevolent. He woz a bulci 
man, candid and earful in biz spedh and a veri 
sef counselor, huz opinyun woz ©fen sot. He 
woz an ecsellent farmer and a veri egzempleri 
Cristyan jentulman. Heocciijiid the old Wil- 
sun Homsted. Hiz hons woz ever open tu the 
homles, and hiz gests wer ngmerus ; and, huev- 
er dlianst tu stop at the horn ov Wilyam W. 


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Wilsun dherisht a loi) and plezig remembrans 
9 v thar ste. 

Wilyam W. Wilsun did 


10 Cornelius Wilsun woz educated at the 
Xen Jerzi Cellej at Prinstun, 17. J. in the bop 
that he wnd enter the Ministri ev the Prezbi- 
tei ian Churdh. 

Me mu-rrid Sera HutVnan and settuld upon 
a farm former li ond hi hiz bruther-in-lo, Celeb 
F. Mor Subsecvventli, he miavd tu Lambert- 
vil, 17su Jerzi. He did November 17, 1877. 

He had vvun dhlld ho did yurj. 

Jon Wilsun woz born upon die 17th ov 
October, 1755; he did Jamjari 4, 1822. 

Jenni Deremer woz born October 10, 1755; 
4he did O^ust 14, 1834. 

The wil ov Jon Wilsun haz meni j>oints ov 
interest: 

In ths nein ev God amen. S Jen Wilsun ev the Teunship ev 
Amwel in tile Ceunti ev Hunterdun and Stat ev Neu Jerzi, 
Considering the unsertinti ev tli is mortal lif and beig ev seund 
and perfect mind and memori blest bs Olmiti Ged for tils sem 
du mcc and publish this mi last wil and testament in manner 
and form felloig (that iz tu Sc) 

First, i givand beewefh untu mi beluved wil' Jen Wilsun, tils 
sum ev wun hundred dellarz a ysr tu bs pad her ysrli, and ev- 


424 


eri yer bi mi Egzecuforz lierin after nemd, di^rii) lier natural 
lif, and az she hath a lif estet in mi farm and appurtenansez, 
it iz mi wil that she reten ©1 mi lieusliold and ciclien furnitur, 
with ©1 mi horsez, cattul, shep and swin, ©Iso ©1 mi farmir) 
yutensilz Viz. Pleuz, Harroz, Wage nz, with ©1 ther Harnes, 
and ©1 uther farmir) tulz, tu be lor her Cenvenyens in manejir) 
the farm, and it iz mi wil that mi wif furnish mi tu doterz that 
ar Siggul and miXnes Sera Cafherin Me Gro.) If the ©r ether 
ev diem shud marri in her liftim Viz. Mi doterz Lea and Sera 
with an eutset, ecwal az me be tu liwet i gev mi uther d©terz 
hwen the wer marrid ; item It iz mi wil that ©n tile deses ev mi 
wif ther be ped until mi tiv doterz, and tu mi lies Sera Catherin 
Me Gr© for hundred dellarz ech Viz : Tu Meri Larasun wif ev 
Andru Larasun 4 giv and beewefh For hundred dellarz tu be 
ped them ther erz and assinz. — 1 u Jen Mor wif ev Celeb Mor i 
giv and beewefh for hundred dellarz tu be ped tu them ther erz 
and assinz. To Slizabefh Wulvertun wif ev Samuel Wulvertun 
$ giv and beewefh For hundred dellarz tu her her erz and as- 
sinz. Tu Lea Wilsun { giv and beewefh for hundred dellarz 
& her assinz. Tu Sera Wilsun i giv and beewefh for hundred 
dellarz tu her her erz and assinz. Tu mi nes Sera Cafherin Me 
Gr© i giv and beewefh for hundred dellarz tu her her erz and 
assinz: — It iz mi wil and i dm order and direct that if mi doterz 
Lea and Sera and mi nes Sera Cafherin Me Gr© ©r ether ev 
them remen Siggul at mi wif s deses, then that mi Egzeeqtorz 
dm furnish them with an eutset (az ubuv directed tu be med bi 
mi wif) item It iz mi wil and i du order and direct mi Egzec 
Utorz lierafter nemd that immedietli az sun az me be after mi 
wifs deses that the dispoz ev ©1 mipersunal and muvabul prep- 
erti that me be feund ev liwet cind soever liwicli it iz mi wil, 
slial be ecwalli divided Slier and Slier alicuntu Jen Sidam Wil- 
sun David Wilsun Wilyam Wilsun Cornelius Wilsun beig for 
ev mi sunz. (MI sun the Rev. Gbreliam Deremer Wilsun, bi hiz 
grandfather’ z wil iztu pezzes mi farm after hiz mu ther’ z deses so 


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that he wil be fulli ecwal tu eni ev hiz brutherzand sisterz,) and 
tu mi doterz Mari Larasun, Jan Mor and Blizabeth Wulvertun, 
Lea Wilsun and Sara Wilsun macii) nin Sliarz, liwich J giv and 
becweth Severalli tu Bell ev tbein, az abuv namd and tu thar 
arz, — and further IE giv and deviz until mi sun Jen Sidam Wil- 
sun hiz arz and assinz (id that part belei)ii) tu me ev the planta- 
sliun that wez cold Col. Bishops Stor and farm liig and beii) in 
the Teunsliipev Amwel ner Ringoz’ old tavern sed tu Centen 
ninti fhre acerz, wun third part liwerev iz mi preperti, and 
liwich i lierbi deviz with ol mi estat. rit and titul tu the sem in 


fe simpul az abuv: — And mi farm and plantashun en liwich mi 
sun neu livz Centanig wun hundred and seventi fiv acerz be the 
sam mor or les. adjeiniij Dr. Jen Beun, Jensun Fislier, and uth- 
erz i giv and deviz tu mi sunz David Wilsun Wilyam Wilsun 
and Cornelius Wilsun and tu thar arz and assinz in fe simpul tu 
be ecwalli divided betwen them in vain : sliar and sliar alic 
and £ du lierbi appoint mi sun the Rev. Bbraliam Deremer Wil- 
sun and mi sun Jen Sidam Wilsun mi Egzecutorz ev this mi 
lastWil and Testament Herbi revocii) ol former wilz bi me mad. 
In witnes liwerev S liav lieruntu set mi hand and sel the tenth 
da ev March in the yer ev eur Lord wun theuzand at hundred 


and twenti wun 1821 . 

Sind, seld, publisht and declard 
bi the abuv namd Jen Wilsun tu 
be hiz lastWil & Testament in the 
prezens ev us, hu hav lieruntu 
subscribd eur namz az witnesez in 
the prezens ev the Testatorz. 


Jen Wilsun 


Sami^el Barber 
Jensun Barber 
Jen Lambert 


J 





427 


INDECS. 


a. 

Qlbani Qcademi, 282. 

Qmerican Flag, 283. 

Qrmenianizum, 298. 

Clmerica, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 328, 390. 
Qrt and Slens, 323. 

A. 


Alfa bet, 11-13. 

Assembli ev Neil Jerzi, 46. 

Alecsocen Riviilet, 123, 390, 403, 404. 
Arithmetic, Pic’s, 154. 

‘‘ Pic’s or Pots’, 233. 
Assosfhiasfhun, North Filadelfia, 163. 

“ Jeneral, 163. 

“ Temperans, 305. 

Aljebre, 210. 

Assistant Surjun, 218. 

Africa, 227. 

Atlanta, 283. 

Amwel Qcademi, 289. 


428 


A^ma, Jorj, 320. 

u Ramend II., Robert, Jozefen, 01iv, 

320. 

Agglo-Qmerican Laggwej, 329. 

Athletic, 346, 366. 

A p j ) u 1 Brandi, 376. 

G. 

Grun, the nigger, 22-23, 29. 

B. 

Barli Shef, Sin ev the, 35. 

Bleu, Dr. Jen, 46, 47, 50, 64, 65, 66, 93, 364. 
Bodin Benjamin, 72, 314. 

“ Wilyam. 140, 315. 

“ Samuel Redig, 314. 

“ Mai i H., Liasi Ma, 314. 

“ Dilli C., 315. 

Blaenburg, 77. 

Brittain, 107. 

Baptisttenn, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111. 

“ Baptist Churdh at, 298. 
Barber’z Semeteri, 113, 414. 

a Stesfhun (neu BeunzStasfhun), 405. 
Blacwel, Ogustus, 127. 

“ Charlz B., Anna M., 127. 

“ Fransina, 370. 

u Sara E., 373. 


429 


Blacwel, Steven, 375. 

“ Jonathan Hunt, Charlz B., Wil- 
lis B., 375. 

Butterfos, ( atherin, 131. 

“ Andru, 131. 

“ Dec u n D., 216. 

Benz, Jen D. C., 155. 

Blbul, 154,222,233. 

“ Clas, 285-286. 

Brigader Jeneral, 157. 

Bee with, Jorj, 157. 

Bueirjham Valli, 164. 

BnsJhirjtun, Revival at, 165. 

“ Baptist Cliurdh at, 167, 168. 
Birum, Harriet, 168 — b. 

Bledjet Milz, N. T., 168— b, 

Bon li, Nan si, 168 — b, 343. 

Bethlehem, 199, 

Barn, 214. 

Bacer, J. J., 215. 

Baptist Cliurdh, 220. 

“ u at Wertsvil, 249, 268, 298, 

305, 366. 

“ “ at Croton, 298. 

“ “ at Cherrivil, 298. 

“ “ ev Manzfeld, 370. 

“ “ at Hopwel, 371. 

“ Churdhez, 271, 272, 304. 

“ wimen, 261. 


430 


Baptist coz, 265. 

Baptists, 242, 246, 249, 266, 272. 
Bisfhep, 222. 

Babilen, 228. 

Betani, 254. 

Bacus, 265, 269. 

Bacanelianz, 265. 

Bacants, 266. 

Beal, 269. 

Bond, Devid and wif, 272. 
Broun, Adaled, 282. 

“ Bela E., 282. 

Burjes, Mis Maria L., 282. 

“ u Lili, 282. 

Battul 9 v Bui Run, 282. 
Bel-letter, 284. 

Baptizum, 298, 299. 

Blac River, 325, 342, 345. 

“ Point, 366. 

Beldher, Jonathan, Esq., 334. 
Burliqtun, 334. 

Beatty, John, 336. 

Bryant, William, 339. 

Burroz, Jen, 341, 355. 

364. 

“ Meri 81izabefh, 418. 
Blind Fiddlerz, 345. 

Britton, Samqel, 360. 


431 


Britton, Jemz, Holcum, Fransis, Samuel, 

360. 

Bos, Wily a m, 360-361. 

“ Samuel, Andris, Jon, LavTna, Lear, 
Jemz, Jozef, Benjamin, Kezla, Wil- 
yam, Mari, 361. 

Baes Count i, Pa., 363. 

Barrac, Ctmelia, 364. 

Bigler, Barni, 370. 

Bold win, Juj Jozef, 375. 

Bonn, Dr. Jon, 395, 406, 411, 425. 
u Jemz O., 403. 

66 Cornelia, Jozef Gardner, 411. 

“ Jon Miltun, Cornelia, 411. 

“ Jemz Oswel, Jozef Holmz, Jon Ad- 
disun, Cornelia, 411. 

“ Jeeob Circpatric, 412. 

“ Jon Conover, Meii Yurp Ella Cire- 
patric, Anna Scene, Jeeob Gardner, 

412. 

Bizzi, 403. 

Barber, Jon, 409. 

“ Wily am, 409. 

“ Meri S., 411. 

“ Samuel, 411, 425. 

“ Jonsun, 425. 

Bisliop, Col., 425. 


432 


C. 

Carrij, 20-22. 

Carlo, 22, 25. 

Cisig, 28-29, 41-42. 

Caticizm, 41, 233. 

Churdh, 285. 

“ Dudh Reformd, 50, 396, 414, 419. 

“ Metig, 258-263. 

“ at Shwangum, X. Y., 419. 

“ at JYorfh Brandh, 1ST. J., 419. 

Cunstabul, 55, 56, 114. 

Celli, Wilyam, 62, 

Cwiczel, 72, 93. 

Cigstun, 77 
Carriig muni, 82-83. 

Circpatric, Rev. Jacob, D. D., 93,137,222- 
228, 230, 233, 234, 235, 412. 
6m Memorial Churdh, 264, 297, 304. 

“ Sera, 411. 

Ceyuiga Lee, and Cennti, 94, 95, 356. 
Cigwud, 112, 361. 

Crozdel, 127. 

Coudric, Morris, 136. 

Colera, 137-141. 

Curnel, 157 
Coggres, 162. 

Cwecerz, 164. 

Collej ov Fizisfhanz and Surjunz, Boltimor, 
Md., 168 — a. 


433 


Collinz, Dr., 176. 

Creperz, 177. 

Cenfqsias, 199. 

Calisthenics, 201-202. 

Cub Rut, 211. 

Clare, On. Peter I., 211 213. 

Crist jan Relijun, 215, 220, 221, 257, 258, 

266. 

Carver’z Jeneral Hospital, 218. 

Camshatca, 227. 

Crist, 257, 280. 

Cempozisfhun, 279. 

Confederet Qrmi, 283. 

Chatanuga, Clevland, Cochecten Senter, 

283. 

Cher, 326. 

Corts ev N. J., 329. 

“ “ Probet, 331, 332. 

Coxe, William, Daniel, Rebecca, Grace, 
Coll. Daniel, 337. 

Connti ov Hunterdun, 341. 

Cwic, Mozez, 355. 

“ Catherin, 365. 

“ Qbraham, 365. 
u Jecob, 365. 

Carhart, 360. 

a Samuel, 362. 

Clerc ov Hunterdun Counti, 362. 

Culbog, Cornelius, 368. 


434 


C id 1 bog, Herman, Qmslia, Rij we, 368. 
Chenang, 369. 

Ces, 370. 

Cir), Bel, 373. 

Cul, Wilyam, 375. 

Circendol, Adam, 385. 

“ Jorj, M. D., 385. 

Cep Horn, 385. 

Corlz, 400, 401, 406. 

Corl, Samuel, (progenitor ev Coil Famili), 
401, 409, 412, 413. 
Corl, Benjamin, 405, 409. 
a Hansi, 406, 409, 411. 

“ Caftierin (Deremer), 408. 

“ Cafherin, Charlz, Samuel, Elizabeth 

Lambert, 409-411. 

fc * Calvin, Benjamin, Ellen Elizabeth, 

410. 


a Charlz, liana, 410. 

k * Jen L., Meri 8., Samuel, Franses Jonz, 

410-411. 

Covenhoven, Garret, 408. 

Cort ev Somerset Co,, 410. 

Conover, Meri, 412. 

Classis ev Nu Brunzwic, 415. 

Cliidister — , 418. 


435 


D. 


Dedicesfhunz, 2. 

Drerner, (Deremer), Jenni, 37, 38,390,391, 
392, 394, 395, 396, 402, 406, 417, 423. 
Deremer, (De Reimer), Gbraham, 391, 392, 
396, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403- 
409, 412. 

Deremer, (De Reimer), Wil gv, 408-409. 
De Reimer, Jzac, 396, 401, 402. 

“ (the nem) 396. 

u Jeceb, 396. 

“ Catherin, 401, 408, 413, 414. 

De Remerz, 397, 398. 

De Remer Blbul, 401-402, 403. 

u Catherin, (wlf ev Albert Van 

Vorhez), 402. 

“ Qbraham, Jr., 408, 412, 413, 

414, 419, 420. 

“ Jen, 409. 

“ Catherin, Jen, Lea, Cornelia, 

408-409. 

“ Qbraham, Chariti, Jeeeb, 413. 

Lea, 408, 413. 

“ Catherin, Jen, Cornelia, 413, 

414. 

Dremijg, 38-40. 

Devil, 49. 

Delawer River, 58, 72, 108, 109 ,111, 361. 

“ Teunsfhip, 114. 


436 


Dansii), 61-68, 132, 134, 188, 189. 

Drovii), 70-90. 

Dilts, Trui, 126. 

“ Clarinda, 127. 

‘‘ Robert, 216. 

Dilts, Cafherin, 216. 

“ Permsla, 421. 

Degre ev M. D., 160, 168— b, 178, 218. 
Doligtun, Bugs Co., Pa., 160. 

Diffheria, 161. 

Democrat parti, 162. 

Disput, HicsTt and Orfhodecs, 164. 

District Scial at Roctoun, 177. 

“ “ Mor’z Scul Hens, 177. 

“ “ “ Yunyunvil, 178. 

“ u “ Copper Ilil, 178, 179, 192. 

David, 199. 

Dsmosfhenez, 199. 

Driden, 199. 

Defh, Yalli gv, 215. 

Durjoard Churdh, 246, 304, 359. 

Duijcardz, 298. 

Durham, J. 8., 249. 

Nicolas O., 268, 270, 274, 275, 
276, 278. 

Dali, Wilyam, 249, 272. 

Duncirc, 283. 

Docerti, Jan, 287. 

Dutdh Reformd, 298. 


437 


Dutdh Reformd Churdh at Fervij, 111., 415, 

416, 419. 

Donesfhun, 309-310. 

Danish Nobulman, 321, 328. 

“ Guvernment, 321. 

“ Gig, 321. 

Denmarc, *322, 323, 324, 328, 379. 

Dial, Wido, 368. 

Dree, JSTathan, 378. 


E. 

Esculepius, 39. 

Ent, Hester, 131. 

Esthetics, 133. 

Edgceslhun, Effect ev, 202-203. 

Ethics, 284. 

England, 337. 

Editor Hunterdun Democrat, 362. 

Everets, 369. 

Elmira, 369. 

Ege, Half, 324, 325, 326, 337, 340, 349, 375. 
“ Samuel, 324, 362. 

“ Jen, 324. 

“ Andria, 324. 

“ Asfher, 362. 


438 


8 . 

Sli, Mes, 57, 59, 61. 

Episcopal Semsteri nsr Riggoz, 360, 363. 

F. 

Fizical Jeagrati, 26. 

Fillips, Meri An, 27, 28, 128, 169, 170, 172, 

173, 174. 

Fillips, Alfeus, 112,124. 

“ Qrun Carmen, Sera F., Jozefen V., 

Anna L., Meri H., Onilda J., 124- 

125. 

“ Jozef, 125. 

Sera A., 125. 

“ Snzan M., 329. 

“ Captin, 365, 371. 

Julia, 420. 

Filadelfia, 35, 108, 114, 154, 160, 164, 176. 
Filesofi, 49. 

Flemirpun, 56, 154. 

“ Hi Seal, 177, 1 78, 190, 202, 209, 
214, 218, 220. 
Baptist Cli u rdh at , 249, 27 1 , 298. 
“ Rel-Rod, 405. 

Fut Resii), 61, 348-349. 

Fitii), 68-70. 

Frshold, 78. 

Fisfhei - , Jemz Jensun, 81, 233, 252. 


439 


Fisfher, Jemz J., Jr., 404. 
kk Mena, 125, 126. 

Jeceb, 126. 

“ Sera, 127. 

a Cornelius, 148, 149. 

“ Sera Cwic, 168 — a. 

u Celeb Farli, 168— a. 295. 

“ An Meri, 411. 

<k Jen C., 411. 

“ Theodor, 404, 419. 

“ Jensun, 425. 

Fisfher Homsted, 127. 

Frendhtoun, 109, 110, 112, 113. 

k ‘ Baptist Churdh at, 298. 

Fin arts, 133, 318. 

Fel, Dr., 139, 140. 

Flag’z Majic Rltig Pres, 177. 

“ Instant eneus lie lei, 177. 

Forts, aibani, Runyun, Creg, Wndberri, 

218. 

Fizisfhan and Surjun, 168 — b, 218-219. 
Fizieloji, 254. 

Foster, William, 339. 

Frewil Baptist Churdh, 369. 

Fitdh, 369. 
u Margaret, 379. 


440 


G. 


Gren, Jon, 48-49. 

“ Eldridj and wlf, 272, 
“ Mis, 357. 

God, 49, 256, 267, 268, 269. 
Gra, Old, 57, 58, 74, 75, 76. 

“ Slizabeth, 368. 
Gamblii), 70. 

Grant, U. S., 151. 

Grenbae Parti, 162. 

Galils, Tsdher ov, 208. 
Gomorro, 228. 

Gulic, Bil, 231. 

Golt (Gault) Hons, 283. 
Golden, William, 335. 

“ David, 335. 

George the Third, 337. 
Gerhart, Henri, 373. 
Godeun, 413. 

, Gaddis, Dr., 420. 


H. 

Hel, 49, 226-227, 231, 239. 

Histori ov tlis Old Prezbiterian Ceggrege 
4hun ov the pspul ov Madenhed and Hop 
wel, 381, 382. 

He ven, 49, 228. 


441 


Hwipir) Post, 53, 55. 

Hopwel, 54, 77, 324, 355, 337. 

Hors Resii), 70, 232. 

Hwij), 79-82. 

Hedcworterz, 108. 

Hart, Samuel, 125. 

Holcum, Sera, 126. 

44 Ralf, 126. 

44 Slizabeth, 126. 

44 Emili, 126. 

44 Jen R., 127. 

44 Thomas S., 127. 

44 Eva S. C., Jemz Carrell, 127. 

44 Charlz E., 128. 

44 Hana An, 22, 131-133, 192-196, 

215, 216. 

44 Captin Jorj, 131. 

44 Audio B., 131. 

44 Samuel R., 319. 

44 Sera Jen, 319. 

44 Meri C., 319, 320. 

44 And na Larisim, 319, 320. 

Jet-eb, 360. 

44 Jen De Reimer, 399. 

Edward, 403. 

44 8lTza, 418. 

44 Jen C., 418. 

44 Alecsander P., 422. 

44 Selomen, 422. 


Holcurn, Anna Meri, Catherin Barber. 422. 
Hogland, Izacer, 148. 

“ Hanna, 410. 

Derric, 410. 

Hail, Rev. Jeraz, 164. 

Hufman, Silas, 1T8. 

Horner, 199 
Haras, 199. 

Herodotus, 199. 

Higgins, Jen S., A. M., 209. 

“ Jedla, 333, 334. 

Hunt, Jan, 216. 

“ James, 338, 352. 

“ Ralph, 352. 

u lire, 371. 
u -Jonathan, 374. 

,fc Fransina, 374, 375. 

Hercqleniun, 228. 

Hi 1 , Carman and wif, 272. 

Jemz, 373. 

“ J. Britten, 373. 

Hler Iqglisli and Frendh, 283. 

Harrisun. Rev. Samuel, 287, 288, 290, 291, 
292, 293, 295, 305. 
Humfri, Acssa Larason, 325. 

“ Jen, 388. 

Jen, Jr., 388—389. 

Howell, Ridhard, Esq., 336. 

Hector, 343. 


443 


14 net, Febe, 346. 

Humphrey, John, 352, 353. 

II u nt li, Mari, 369. 

II uf Nathan B., 377. 

Hoi, A.. 377. 
a Emma L., 411. 

“ Izac, 411. 

Hal’z Histori, Rev. Jorj, D. D., 380. 381. 
Holland, 396. 

Hagaman, Jon, 396. 

“ An, 412. 

“ Gbraham, 412, 414. 

Wil ov Gbraham, 413-414. 
u Jon, 413. 

Hagcinz, Anna, 410. 

Ilufman, Theodor P., 411. 

Sara, 423. 

Hoppoe, 412. 

“ Wily am, 420. 

u Snzan M., 421. 

u Jonathan, 421. 

4 . 

Irishman, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61. 

4zaa, 199. 

Sriand, 321, 327, 328, 329, 390. 
irisfh, 322, 327, 328. 


444 


I. 

Infinit, 'The, and Sternal, 49. 
Iggl&hteun, 78. 

Introducslhun, The, 154. 
Intermittent Fever, 219. 

Infernal Rejun, 231. 

Ingraham, Rev. J. S., A. M., 282. 
[gglisli Literati*!*, 283. 

Indianz, 324. 

Iggland, 353, 372, 396. 

Indiana, 373. 


J. 

Jacsun, Andria, 30, 131. 

“ Pensilvenia, 368. 

“ Semeteri, 368. 

Jemz St., 50. 

Jemzburg, 77. 

J u m j ) i g , 1 35-137 . 
donsun, Tomas C., 180. 

“ Jen L., Osa, Benjamin Larisun 

180-181 

“ 8llas, 180. 

“ Izac, 358. 

Job, 199. 

Jeremla, 199. 

Josef us, 199. 

Jen, Predhig ev, 199. 


4 45 


Jen, Gospel b!, 199. 

Jeernetri, 210. 

Jonz, J. L., A. M., 284. 

Jensen, 322. 

Jiael, Charlz, 374, 375. 

“ Wilyam Larisun, 375. 

“ Charlz Scilman, M. D., 375. 

“ Mari, 375. 

Jemeca, 380. 

Juj 9v the cort ev Hunterdun Cennti, 383. 
Jerrnani, 39(3. 

Just is 9 v Pes, 421. 


L. 

Larisun, Jemz (ev Stoni Bine), 10, 321. 
324, 325, 327, 328, 32 ), 336, 337, 338, 339. 
340, 346-354, 355, 370, 375, 379, 380, 382. 
Larisun, Jemz (ev Stoni Brne), grev ev, 

326, 353. 

u Rev. Jorj H., M. D., 10-11, 144, 
153-168, 176, 186, 187, 218, 220, 
246, 248, 249, 323, 367, 378, 380. 
“ (Larsen), Jen (die Den), 11, 
168 — b, 321, 322, 324, 329, 341, 342, 380. 
“ Andru, (sun ev Andru Larisun and 
Lavina Severnz), 15, 41-123, 165, 
315, 326, 327, 357, 361, 363, 366, 
367, 397, 417, 424. 


446 


Lari sun, Andna (sun ov Andru Larisun and 
Lavlna Severnz), Horn ov, 29-30. 

u Jen (sun ov Andru Larisun and 
Mari An Fillips), 28. 

“ Meri Catherin, 15, 31, 32, 180-181. 

“ Jen W. 64, 72, 77, 125-126, 231. 

“ Thsodorus (sun ov Rejer and Le- 
nar Larisun), 101, 366-368. 

“ Andru (sun ov Jamz Larisun ov 
Stoni Brnc), 105, 335, 336, 340, 
357-359. 

“ David W, 112,169. 

“ Sara, Jan, Jon W. Andru, Benja- 

min, Qbraham D., Lavina (chil- 
dren ov Andru Laiisun and Mari 
Wilsun), 123. 

a Sara, (dealer ov Andru Larisun 
and Mari Wilsun), 124. 

Jon D., 125, 131, 144, 315. 

u Jorj, Jon Fisfher, Lqcresfhia An, 
6.1 > rah am W. (dhildren ov Jon W. 
Larisun and Maria Fisfher), 126. 

“ Elwud, Helen, Jon W., (dhildren 
ov Jorj Larisun and Sara Holcum.) 

126. 

u Tomas H., Jorj, Jacob S., Mari 
Elizabeth, Lqcredhia An, Sara S., 
Jan S., (dhildren ov Jorj Larisun 
and Mari An Pacsun), 126-127. 


447 


Larisun, Andru, Edward H. Franses, Lew- 
is, (dhildren 9v Jen F. Larisun and 
Clarinda Dilts), 127. 

“ Andru (sun ev Andru Larisun 
and Mari Wilsun), 27-28, 127, 
169, 170, 171, 172. 

“ Jen P., David, (dhildren ev An- 
dru Larisun and Mari An Fillips), 

128. 

“ Mari, Carolln, Jen Fillips, Cora 
Ma, Heuard Wilsun, (dhildren ev 
David Larisun and 8ara An Wil- 
sun), 128. 

Benjamin, (sun ev Andru Larisun 
and* Mari Wilsun), 22, 129-153, 
176, 315. 361, 392, 397. 
Jorj Holcum, Lnsi An, Cornelius 
Wilsun, Mari Cnfherin, Andru 
Butterfos,Sara La \ In a, Jen Drem- 
er, Hanna Ellen, Cornelia Jan, 
(dhildren ev Benjamin Larisun and 
Hanna An Holcum), 153. 

“ Anna Fa rli, 168 — a. 

“ Fransis Waland, M. D., 168 — a— 

168— c, 343. 

“ Cordelia, 168 — 1>, 343. 

“ Jen Ja, 168— b. 

u Jozef, 168 — b, 343. 


448 


Larisun, Devid (sun ev Wilyam Larisun 
Gv Morris C<>.), 108 — 1>, 343. 

“ Devid (ev Hopvvel Tounship) Wil 
ov, 334-335. 

u Wilyam (ev Morris Co.), 168 — 1>, 
325, 334, 342, 345. 
“ Lusi An, 168-1T5. 

a Cornelius Wilsun. 15-18, 135, 145, 

173, 176-179, 192-201, 236-262, 
268-282, 283, 284-290, 302-304, 
306, 308-309. 
“ Andru Butterfos, 176, 178, 216, 

181-313. 

‘ fc Fqneral ov A. B., 307—308. 

“ Belli, Ben (dhildren ov C, W. Lar- 
isun & Meri J. Serjent), 179. 
u Cafherin B., 282—286. 

“ Sera Lavina, 313—314. 

Andru B., Wilyam B., Anna M., 
Carman W. (dhildren ov Jon D. 
Larisun & Dilli C. Bodin), 316. 

“ Hanna Ellen, 316-317. 

Cornelia Jan, 317—318. 

“ La vina An, 319. 

Larason, Rojer, Jemz, Wilyam, Jen, (sunz 
ov Jen the Den), 324, 325. 
Wilyam (ov Flu Brunzwic), 329, 
336, 340, 380, 381. 
“ Wilyam, Wil ov, 332-334. 


449 


Larason, James, William, Thomas, George, 
John (simz ev Wily am Larason 
ov Nq Brunzwic), 333—334. 
Jerusha, 335. 

Jonathan, Amos, Charles, Enoch 
(sunz ov David Larason ev Hop- 
wel TemWhip), 335. 

Levinia, James, 336. 

Andna (ev Mem’s Co.), 336. 
Sarah, William, 336. 

Wilyam (ev Hopwel Tennsflhip), 
337, 380, 381. 

“ Slizabefti, 340. 

Jen, (sun ev Jemz Larisun ev 
Stoni Brnc), 341, 355-356. 

“ Pasfhens, 343. 

“ David, Jemz, Andru, Slizabefh, 

Mari, Nan si, (dhildren ev Wilyam 
and Pasfhens Larason), 342, 343. 

“ Jozef, Benjamin, Wilyam, David, 

(dhildren ev David, 1st sun ev 
Wilyam Larason), 343. 

“ Jamz M., Jozef H , Minor, Jen J a, 

(dhildren ev Jozef Larason and 
Nansi Benli), 343. 

“ Henri S., Ja Gurrel, Wasfhiijtun, 

David, Jorj, Wilyam Harrisun, 
(dhildren ev Wilyam, 3d sun ev 


350 


David Larason ov Hector, If. Y.) 

• 343-344. 

Peter, Wilyam, Jemz, Jozef'Wert- 
mcm, Andiu, (children gv Jamz, 
2d sun gv Wilyam gv Morris Co., 
If. J.), 344. 

u Jamz, Peter, Fleid, Jozef W. 
(dhildren gv Wilyam, 2d sun gv 
Jemz, 2d sun gv Wilyam Lnrason 
gv Morris Co.), 344. 

Larison, Loyer Wilyam, A. M., 344. 
Larason, Wilyam, Mari, Jan, Benjamin, Pa- 
s'hens, Salli, David, (dhildren gv 
Andru, 3d sun gv Wilyam gv Mor- 
ris Co.), 3-14. 

Jon, (sun gv Jon die Dan), 345. 
Peter, Jon, Henri, Wilyam, Jacob, 
Edward Dun, Jorj, (sunz gv Jon 
die Dan), 345, 346. 

8lTja, (sun gv Jamz, sun gv Jon, 
sun gv Jon die Dan), 348, 350, 
351, 352, 375-376. 
David, (sun gv Jamz, sun gv Jon, 
the Dan), 350, 351, 352. 
u Kezla, 354. 

Jen, Andru, Iiojer, Wilyam, Eliza, 
David, Anne, Elizabeth, Cafherin, 
Aosa, (dhildren gv Jamz a nd Ke- 
zla Larason gv Stoni Bruc), 354. 


351 


Larason, Rojer, (sun ov Jemz Larason ©v 
Stoni Bruc), 356. 

Cafherin, (doter ov Jemz Larason 
ov Stoni Bruc), 356, 387. 

Betsey or Elizabeth, 356. 
Benjamin, Jemz, Meri, Jorj, An- 
dria, Benjamin, Sera, (dhildren ©v 
Andru Larason and LavTna Sev- 
ernz), 359. 

Benjamin (sun ov Andru Larason 
and LavTna Severnz), 359-360, 363. 
Jemz, (sun ov Andru Larason and 
LavTna Severnz), 360. 

“ LavTna, Redhel, KezTa, (dhildren 

©v Jemz Larason and Hol- 

cum), 360. 

Meri, (doter ov Andru Larason 
and LavTna Severnz), 360—361. 

“ Jorj, (sun ov Andru Larisun and 
LavTna Severnz), 361—362. 

“ Jon, Marla, LavTna, Jemz, Gei- 
sfhum, (dhildren ov Jorj Larason 
and ( atherin Lambert), 361—362. 
“ Jorj, Charlz, Meri, Jozefen, (dhil- 

dren ov Jemz Larason and Emma 
Serjent), 362. 

“ Oafhi*rin, Emma, (dhildren ov Ger- 
slium Larason and Cornelia Sharp. 

362. 


452* 


irason, Meri, Wilyani, (dhildren ©v Ben- 
jamin Larason and Sera Van Zant), 

363. 

“ Sera, (doter ©v Andria Larason 

and LavTna Severnz), 363. 

“ Rejer, (sun ©v Jemz. Larason ©v 

Stoni Bruc), 364, 365, 379. 

“ Lenar, 365. 

“ Jemz, J©n, Thsodorus, Margaret, 

Blizabefh, Rebecca, Cafherin, 
Redhel, (dhildren ©v Rejer and Le- 
nar Larason), 365. 

“■ J©n R., 365. 

u J©n, (sun ©v Rejer and Lenar Lar- 

ason), 365-366. 

Qbraham, (sun ©v J©n Larason & 
Cafherin Cwic), 366. 

“ Rev. Jon (sun ©v Thsodorus Lar- 

ason), 367, 369. 

“ Anna, Jacob, Jon, Lips, (dhildren 

©v Theodoras Larason and Bliza- 
beth Updic), 367, 368. 

“ Luis, 369. 

“ Henrietta, 369. 

“ Thsodorus, Oscar, Lips, Levi, H er- 

as, David, (sunzev Rev. Jen Lar- 
ason and Mari ITuntli), 369. 

“ Margaret, (doter ©v Rejer and Le- 

nar L.), 369. 


*453 


Larason, Slizabeth, (doter gv Rejer and Le- 
nar L.), 370. 

“ Catherin, (doter gv Rejer and Le- 
nar L,), 370. 

u Radhel, (doter gv Raier & Lenar 

L., 370. 

u Wilyam, (sun gv Jamz L. gv Sto- 
ni Brnc), 370-371, 384, 389. 

“ Cornelius, Pamela, (dhildren gv 

Wilyam L. & Fransina Blacwel), 

371. 

“ Pamela, 372, 374. 

“ David, 374. * 

“ Catherin, Slizabeth, (doterz gv 8- 

lija L.), 375. 

u David (sun gv Jamz L. gv Stoni 
Brnc), 375, 376. 

“ JGnaflian, Cmus, Charlz, Sdgc, 

(dhildren gv David L. & Jerusha 
Smith), 377. 

“ Jerusha, Hanna, Cmus, 8lTza A., 

Nansi S., (dhildren gv Jonathan 
L.), 377-378. 

a Jamz, (suhgv Jgh, the Dan), 380. 

“ Jamz (gv Ilopwel), 381. 

a Cinus (sun gv David L. & Jeru- 

sha Smith), 382. 

“ Charlz (sun gv David L. & Jeru- 
sha S.), 382. 


454 


Larason, 8110 c (sun ©vDevid L. & Jeruslia 
Smith), 382. 

“ Anne (doler ©v Jemz L. ©v Stoni 
Brno), 383-385. 

“ Blizaheth, (doter ov Jemz L. ov 
Stoni Brnc), 385, 386. 
fi Acsa (doter ©v Jeraz L. ©v Stoni 
Brnc), 388-389. 

Larason, 322, 327. 328, 330, 345. 

Larisunz, The old, 324 tu 379. 

Larsen, 322, 323, 324, 328. 

Lari sun Homsted, (the old), 112, 113, 128, 
181, 324, 325, 326, 329, 337, 381. 
Larisun’z Corner or Upper Riqgoz (Plez- 
ant Corner), Hotel at 230-231. 
Lafeet, 30. 

Lejisletqr ©v ]STii Jerzi, 46, 48, 329, 383. 
Lambert vil, 57, 60, 109, 121, 144, 154, 160, 
165, 168— a, 220, 409. 
“ First Baptist Churdh ov, 163, 

249, 298. 

“ Public Scial ©v, 179. 

Lee Cuntri, in Yore Stet, 71, 355, 356, 366, 

367. 

Lilli, On. Samuel, M. D., 93, 160. 

Lambert, , 115. 

“ Hon. John, Esq. 336. 

“ Catherin, 361, 362. 
u Guvernor Jon, 361. 


455 


Lambert, Samuel, 388. 

“ Jon, 409. 

“ u (ov Lambertvil), 410. 

“ 425 

“ 81izahefh, 409. 

“ J ozef, 409. 

u Debora Jonz, 410. 

“ An, 421, 422. 

“ Asfher, 422. 

“ Gersfhum, Jon, Slizabeth, Carollii, 

422. 

Latin and Grec, 135, 177, 208, 219. 

Le, Jen., 151. 

“ Oharlz M., M. D., 210, 220, 221, 238, 239. 
Li simian, 199. 

Litereri Eeserslzez, 209. 

Laria, Decun D., 215. 

Lisiumz. 221. 

Liaivil, 283. 

Log Hand, 322, 329, 349, 350, 380, 388. 
Legal Documents, 330. 

Larson, Elijah, 335. 

Lemig, Job, 373. 

Luvet, Wilyam, 377. 

“ Martha J., Emma A., Ceti, Jamz 
L., Hatti, Alfred Qgustus, 377-378. 
“ 81iza A., 377, 378-380. 

“ Jennie D., 379. 

La Hue, 403. 


456 


Mac Manerz, Marla, 15-18. 

Mountari, 108, 357. 

Mountari, Presbiterian Church at, 41, 62, 

128, 395. 

Methodist Churdh, 48 
Methodists, 222, 223, 225, 298. 

Munmuth, 77. 

Milford, 108. 

Mathiiz, Besss B., 128. 

Manli Sports, 132-137. 

Mens'hu reshun, 155, 210. 

Militari Tactics, 156-157. 

Madisun Yuniversiti, 160. 

Medisiu, 160, 168— a, 176, 178, 218, 220. 

“ Penn. Coll, ev 160, 176. 

“ and Surjeri, 168 — b. 

Matlip, Jon, 165, 363. 

Materniti Hospital, 168 — a. 

Mepul Shugar, 168 — c. 

Medical Collej at Jsnsva, JST. Y., 178, 190, 

218. 

Mathematics, 179, 209, 214, 284. 

Molstun, AVilyam J., 180. 

Merril, Bev. Jonatlian Detun, A. M., 177. 

a Dr. Wily am D., 271. 

Mil tun, 199. 

Malaria, 218. 

Madagascar, 227. 

Metig Hons, 246. 


457 


Macen, 283. 

Marietta, 283, 372. 

Mentisello, Public Scial at, 283. 

u Acad sm i, 283. 

Mlnig, 341, 347-348, 376. 

Meant Helli, 346. 

Moore, Joseph, 353. 

M’Gill, JSTeilli, 353. 

M’Gee, John, 356. 

“ USTellie, 356. 

Manley, Catherin, 356. 

Mari land, 360. 

Muscenetceg Meuntinz, 364. 

Min Hoi Methodist Churdh, 365. 

Mac Gil, 370. 

ManJialz Corner, 371. 

Marshal, Wm., .375. 

Merrel, Jamz, 377. 

Me Glettun, Jen, 379. 

Mel drum, Jen, 409. 

Mirjc, 413. 

Mor, Caleb F., 417, 423, 424. 

“ Sara An, Wilsun F., 418. 

“ Ridhard IT., Lea, Elizabeth, Caleb, Al- 
len, 418. 

“ R. H., Sara, 418. 

“ Jenni De Reimer Wilsun, 417-418. 

“ Jozef, 418. 

“ Tem as, 418. 


458 


Me G o, Sera Cafherin, 424. 


N. 

Neu Yore (Siti), 108, 114, 154. 

“ “ (Stet), 84, 162. 

Neii Marcet, 149. 

Neu Heven, 157. 

ISTeii Jerzi Stet Normal Scul, 179. 

“ “ Cellej at Prinstun, 423. 

Neii Brunzwic, 205, 329. 

Nelor, Edward, 216. 

“ Robert, 263. 

“ Meri, Izac, Wilyam A., Febe (dhil- 
dren ev Robert Nelor and Sera Lar- 
is un), 364. 

u Meri, Lambert, (dhildren ov Wilyam 
Nelor and Qmelia Barrae), 364. 

Neu Testament, 241. 

Nevius, Jen, 249. 

Netur, Loz ov, 254. 

Natural Slensez, 284. 

Nenamecer, S., 287. 

Neilson, Samuel, 333, 334. 

Neslhanic River, 366. 


O. 


Old Yore Rod, 112, 113, 125, 232. 


459 


Old Larisim Berriig Ground, 324-325. 

Old Igglish, 329. 

Old Ston Churdh, 361. 

Ohio, 363. 

Olden, Ecs-Guvernor, 376. 

Ot, Wilyam K., 411. 

“ .Sharlot, Wilyam, Jesse, Elizabeth Lam- 
bert, 411. 


0 . 


Obstetrics, 161. 

Offis ov Secreteri ov Stet, 330, 336. 

P. 


Prefas, 3-13. 

Pmrhous ov Delawer Teunsfhip, 24. 
Pensilvania, 58, 115, 116, 120, 162, 324. 

“ Y universiti ov, 160. 

Prol, Emma, 62, 172, 173. 

“ Sllza W., 412. 

“ Jacob S. & Rebecca H., 412. 
Peril vil (The Hicori Tavern), 64, 364. 
PrTs ov Shep, 77. 

Plezant Corner, 77, 125. 126, 258. 
Prolzvil, 108, 420. 

Prlmhop, 108. 

Prevost, Pol Hrnri Mallet, 109, 111. 


4(50 


Prevo (Prevost,), A. M., 111. 

Prevotoun, 112. 

Pacsun, Meri An, 126. 

“ Ruben, 126. 

Pritti Salli, 149. 

Politics, 162. 

Puerperal Fever, 181. 

Pocet Grlndfton, 177. 

Profesor ov Natural Slens, 178. 

“ ev Zoeloji, 178. 

Pop, 199. 

Palestln, 215. 

Pluro-numonia, 219. 

Political Metiijz, 221. 

Prezbiterian Churdh, 221, 222, 223, 224 
225, 239, 246, 247, 250, 251, 258, 264, 423. 
Pompii, 228 

Paulson, Rev. Jzreel, 246, 292, 305. 
Providens, 247, 248, 255, 264. 

Prezbiteri, 264. 

Prezbiterianizum, 264. 

Prezbiterianz, 298. 

Parcsez, The 325, 382. 

Parc Farnili, 353. 

Parc-Larason Semeteri, 353, 384, 389. 
Parc, Rojer, 353, 372, 379, 381, 384. 

“ don, 371, 372. 

“ Benjamin, 372, 384. 

“ Wilyam, 372, 384. 


461 


Parc, Blizabeth Larason, Radhel Rolan, 372. 
u Pamela L., Jen Pare, Wilyam H., 
Rebecca, Jan Marla, Jorj W., Ruth 
An, Radhel An, Cathcrin 8., Samiiel 
B., 373. 

“ Radhel R., 374. 
u Radhel, Anne, 385. 

Probat Cort ev Hunlerdun Co., 335. 
Parks, Anne, 351. 

Peltun, Mari, 341, 355. 

* 4 Benjamin, 341, 355. 

“ Jen, [355. 

Pidcec, Jenatlian, 409. 

Piis, Chari z A., 418. 

Pemmi, Jen, 420. 


R. 

Retoric, 18, 280. 

Recteun, 54, 55. 

Ram Drigcir), 70. 

Reci Hil, 77. 

Riggoz, 108, 112, 113, 219, 221, 231, 250, 
258, 263, 264, 272, 273, 291. 
“ Baptist Churdh at, 168, 178, 220, 

241-307. 

u “ Assosfhiasfhun at, 217. 

“ Seminari at, 178, 179, 283, 284, 
289, 290, 312. 


462 


Riggoz, G-ret, dhurdh miavnient at, 220. 

“ Qcademi ev Siena and Qrt at, 179. 

Hotel at, 221, 237-238. 

“ Res Core ev, 232. 

Raritan River, 108, 366. 

Reslji), 132-134, 190-191. 

Rlt, Rev. Jozef, 138, 140. 

Ridhmend, 151. 

Reder, The Old Igglhdi, 154, 233. 

Romln, E. C., 163. 

Rebinsun, Prin. Sami^el, 179. 

Redig, 197-201, 205, 206,295. 

Rn, Jesfhiaa, 215. 

Rage, Ellen, 216. 

Rittenheus, Jorj, 216. 

“ J ad sun, 403. 

Rsbelyun, 218. 

Raggul’z Land, 227. 

Redig, Jen, 287. 

“ Jen and wlf, 272. 

“ Emelin, 286. 

“ Sllza, 420. 

“ Persun, 420. 

Rendeut (nen Cigstun), 282, 

Remsen, 322. 

Rolfe, Ro, 333, 334. 

Read, Clias., 334. 

Runyan, Elizabeth, 351. 

Andrew, John, Aaron, Achsah,351. 


463 


Runyan, Qrun, 385-386, 387. 

Aiidna, Jen, Qrun, Aesa, 386. 
Jeneral, 387. 

Runyanz, The 386-387. 

Ru nyan’z S© Mil, 385-386. 

Rirtgerz Collej, 359, 414, 419. 
Reyolnsfhuneri Wor, 365 371, 393 
Rijberri, 367. 

Reelland, II., 375. 

RHi, 378. 

Revel, Tomas, 381, 382. 

Red, Detis, 418. 

Rmjeul, Ridhard H., 422. 

Nelli H., Efhel J., 422. 


S. 

Sloni Bi uc, 10, 324, 325, 329, 338, 340, 347, 
349, 352, 355, 370, 374, 381, 
382, 385. 

Severnz, Levina, 105, 357, 358, 359. 

Theos., 334. 

Jen, 358. 

Saudi Rij, 215-217, 403, 404. 

“ “ Baptist Churcfh at, 131, 133, 162, 

168, 178, 215, 216, 217, 314, 315, 
316, 317. 

“ “ Semeteri at, 133, 141, 216. 

“ Select Scial at, 178. 


464 


Shepherd, 38. 

“ J. Farli, 246, 250. 

“ Gsa, 373. 

Swerig, 50. 

Sunde, 52, 228-230, 232, 239. 

Sunde Scwl, 163, 215, 221, 270, 271, 272, 285. 

“ “ Llbreri, 271-272. 

Serjent, Lambert, 63. 

“ Meri Jen, 179. 

“ Jozef, 179, 197, 214. 

“ Gersfhum C., 197, 214. 

“ Emma, 362. 

“ Gren, 362. 

Serjent Ilomsted, 179, 214. 

Speciiletig, 70. 

Stori Telig, 93-100, 104. 

Seneca Lee, 94. 

Stor Cepig, 107. 

Stoctun, 109. 

“ Baptist Cliurdh at, 298. 

Senter Brij (non Stectun), 115. 

Severz, Qlenzo, 125. 

“ . Viola, 125. 

Snider, Matti, 126. 

Sanderz, Etta, 127. 

Stsvensun, 127. 

Scegc, Jeceb, 133, 148. 

“ Dennis, 357, 358. 

“ Mrs. Dennis V. L., 399. 


465 


Scege, Dennis V. L., 403, 410. 

Swamp Robin ( Ilylocichla mustelinci ) , 133. 
Sutfin, Half, 134. 

Speler, Cumli’z, 154. 

Serjentsvil, 156, 359. 

“ Tanneri at, 360-361. 

Sharp, Jorj, 159, 

“ Cornelia, 362. 

Solberi Baptist Churdh, 162-164, 165, 167. 
Scarlet Fever, 168 — a. 

Sgpt. ev Scialz ov Hunterdun Co., ]S". J., 178. 
Sisero, 199. 

Sent Pol, 199. 

Solomon, 199. 

Spelig, 199-201. 

Smith, Rev. H, F., D. D., 205. 

“ Andrew, George, Anna, 356. 

“ Slizabeth, 373. 

“ Jerusfha, 376. 

“ Dr. Chari z, 376. 

Smith’s Histori ov N. J., 382. 

Surveig, 210. 

Suprem Cort ov ]ST. J., 211. 

Sproul, Rev. S., 215. 

Shadigger, Decun S., 215, 

Sesfhun Rum, 221. 

Sodom, 228. 

Sigfred, Rev. S., 249. 

Swallo, Jecob, 249. 


466 


Servis, Sera, 286. 

Sacrament ov Lord’z Supper, 298-300. 
Strlcer, Charlz M., 319. 

a Margaret, LavTna, Sam riel, 319. 
Soil man, Samuel, 320. 

“ Carri M., 375. 

“ 420. 

Scotland, 321. 

Shicago, 323. 

Stent, David, 326, 333, 334, 337, 338, 339, 

340, 382. 

“ Nathan, 340. 
a Joab, 353. 

“ J acob, 356. 

“ Famili, 340. 

“ Elenor, 375, 376. 

“ Jamz, 375. 

“ David (ov Lecsiijtun), 379. 

Stouts, Tbs, 379. 

Stat Record z, 329. 

Surrogate Offis, 331. 

Sexton, John, 335. 

“ John, Sarah, Achsah, Margaret, 
William, Elijah, Anne, 351. 

“ Catherine, 351. 

“ Anne, 352. 

John (sun ov Catherin Larason), 356. 
“ (Saxton), 383. 

Sextons, Carles, 338. 


467 


Snook, Peter, 356. 

St. Andru’z Ghurdh, 357. 

Shappi, Meriet, 369. 

Sussecs Connti, 372. 

Swager, Mena, 373. 

Seed, Jon, 373. 

“ emus, 384. 

Satcr, Jon, 377. 

Sward H. G., 377. 

She ter, A., 377. 

Secstun, Jered, 383-384. 

“ Jen, Sera, Acsa, Margaret, W 
yam, 81Iza, Anne, 384. 

“ Wilya.m •Parcs, 384. 

“ Jon, 387, 

Switzerland, 396. 

Sidam (Suydam), 402. 

“ Jon, 402. 
u Cornelius, 403. 
u Meri, 403. 

Senet ov ]STeu Jerzi, 410. 

Sherif ov Hunterdun Cennti, 422. 

r L\ 

Trentun, 46, 60, 61, 154, 155. 

Tonnz, Domini, 62, 63. 

Titus, Oliver, 125. 

“ Sera, Edith, 125. 


468 


Titus, Theodor, 364. 

“ Samuel, 370. 

44 6sa, 372. 
u Stsven, 374, 376. 

“ Wm. L., 81iz. H., Charlz J., Frans. 
II., Sues, Henri B., Pamela, Jemz 
T., Cornelius, 374. 

Tltusvil, 320. 

Tavern, 125, 166. 

Teufel, Mari, 127. 

Temperans, 141, 143, 305, 306. 
iC Sermon, 305. 

Tobacco, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152. 
Tedhii), 105-107, 161-162, 177, 178, 180, 
239, 240, 241, 245, 246, 253, 282, 
283, 286, 290, 292, 310, 341, 346, 
258, 359, 363, 366, 368, 390. 
Timberman, 215. 

Theoloji, 298. 

Torn! insun, Fransis, 362. 
u ' Charlz, 362. 

“ 418. 

Troi, O., 372. 

Thadher, Jerusha, 422. 

“ 6m us, 422. 

“ Jacob, Robert, 422. 

u. 

XJlises, Is. Y., 368. 


469 


U. 


Ujxlle, 367. 

Elizabeth, 367. 

Y. 

Vizit iij Dies, 18-19. 

Van Zant, Nansi, 23-27, 29. 

“ Peter, 23-24. 

“ “ Sera, 363. 

Vicsbur#, Sej ev, 151. 

Van Dola, Jon, 216. 

Van Dolaz Scial, 154, 155, 158, 159, 160, 

363. 

Virjil, 199. 

Vansieul, Jon, 360. 

“ Qrun, 360. 

u Jon, Jr., 360. 

Van Vorez, Albert, 402. 

Van Lia, Dennis, 403. 

Van Camp, Hanna, 410. 

“ . “ Gilbert, 410. 

Van Doren, An, 410. 


W. 


Wasliigtun, Jen., 29. 

Wil, 332, 334, 355, 408, 413, 423, 425. 


470 


Wilsun, Mari, 31-37, 40-41, 53. 110, 359, 

417, 424. 

“ Jen, 37, 390-396, 400. 406, 413, 

414, 417, 423, 425. 

“ Qrun, 124 

“ Meri, Lavina A., Jen L., 124-125. 

“ Ella, 125. 

“ Rozella, Catti, Qrun Carmen, 125. 

“ Sera An, 128. 

Decun D., 215. 

“ Gbraham De Reimer, 359, 414- 

416, 417, 424, 425. 
“ Jen Sidam, 403, 417, 420, 421, 425. 

“ Qhraham Dn Beis, 411. 

“ Lea, 417, 418. 

“ Slizabefh, 417, 419, 424. 

“ Sere, 417. 419. 

‘‘ Jen, CLbraluim, Harri, Julia, Jen, 

420. 

“ Ellen. Jen, 421. 

“ David, 417, 321, 425. 

“ Wilyam Woterz, 417, 421-423, 425. 

“ Meri Lambert, Jen De Reimer, 

421-422. 

Cornelius, 317, 423, 425. 

“ Lea, Sera, 424. 

“ Jen, 424. 

Meri, Jen, Slizabefh, Lea, Sera, 

425 . 


471 


Wilsun, Homsted, 422. 

Wat sun, Marrnaduc, 35, 36. 

“ Mrs., 36. 

Wever, 38. 

West, The 71. 

Wilyarnsun, A. T., 93, 232. 

a Garret, 408. 

Wel’z Folz, 108. 

Wulsi, Jorj, Lizzi, 125. 

Wulvertun, Job, 135, 136. 

“ Adher, 135, 136, 137, 364. 

“ Samuel, 419, 424. 

“ Morris, 419. 

“ Iiev. Win., 419. 

Worman, Jacob, 136, 138, 139, 140, 141. 

“ Mrs., 140. 

Wilyam, 403. 

Web, Rev. G. S., D. D., 207, 267, 269, 270. 
Wndz, Rev. E. A., 305. 

Wert, Osa Gar ri sun, 320. 

“ Spenser S., 320. 
u Sara Garrisun, 320. 

“ Sara Garrisun, Tomas Jefferson, Sa- 

ra Wert, Lavlna An, Andrii Lari- 
sun, Mari Scilman, Osa Roberts, 320. 
Way Goff, Nicholas, 338. 

Warren Connti, 344. 

Wertsvil, 366. 

Woldrun, 366. 


472 


Wisocs, 3J. Y., 368. 
West Jerzi Sosleti’, 381. 
Wissamenson, 381. 


Y. 

Yui), Rev. Jorj, 133, 215, 217. 

“ Peter, 148. 

“ Hana, 272. 

“ Rev. Cliarlz, 307. 

“ An Conover, 412. 

“ Jon, 412. . 

Yuniversiti at Liaisburg (non Buenel Yu- 
niversiti), 158, 160, 177, 178, 
214,219,282. 

a ov Vermont, 168 — a. 

“ Femel Institqt (non Buenel 

Yuniversiti Institqt), 283-284. 
Yunlted First Churdh ov Amwel, 221, 222, 
252, 287, 289, 291, 292, 293, 296, 297, 304. 
Yuniterian Cliurdh, 287, 298. 


Z. 


Zooloji, 254. 


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